921777 - Allow the user to change which search engine provides suggestions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 824388

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, enhancement)

Description

[Will Pittenger]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258

Steps to reproduce:

Google isn't the only search provider that provides suggestions.  I've seen them from many Wikimedia-based sites.  I know you have to be careful not to check too many engines at once.  So why not do what Firefox desktop does?  There, when the user wants to search with a engine other than the default, they change the selected engine before typing.

With Firefox for Android, this would be a simple tap on the desired engine before any search terms are entered.  If the user changes his or her mind, he or she would be able to search with a different engine any time after entering the desired terms using the existing UI.


Actual results:

There are no search suggestions for engines other than Google.


Expected results:

Let users specify a search engine before entering terms by tapping the desired engine.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This is a feature we already have planned.