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[Feature-request] Quick search engine selection

asked 2015-02-06 10:55:00 +0300

huuhaa gravatar image

updated 2015-02-08 11:22:02 +0300

Would be great, if you could select/change the search engine in browser quickly. Maybe something like following:

1) write search term to addres bar normally

2) if pressing >> (the button on bottom right corner) browser would use default serch engine and do the search as it normally would.

BUT

If you do the step 2,like this: Hold >> button => User would get list of available search engines and tapping one, would use that search engine for that search (not changing it to default).

Edit 8.2.2015: Second thought about this. Maybe the easiest and more Sailfish way would be following.. When typing address there is typically pulley menu there. What about adding available search engines there to the pulley? There just should be some way to user reorganize order of pulley (at least in which order those search engines are listed).

I think this is needed since quite often I seem to end up to google search bubble. But Still I don't want to change my dafault, since most of times it's the best for me. I can sure go to duckduckgo.com and search again, but would be great if I could just quickly select the search engine in browser instead.

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answered 2015-02-08 13:24:18 +0300

Slawek gravatar image

Here you will find it.

https://openrepos.net/content/coderus/search-engines-sailfish-browser

I think this is what you have been looking for.

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@Slawek » I suppose what OP is looking to change default option in browser itself before searching. Makes sense. For instance, for recent news Google may be better than Duckduckgo.

anandrkris ( 2015-02-08 14:21:57 +0300 )edit

@anandrkris I assume you meant me, by saying OP. If so, that closer to the truth, but you both wrong.. @Slawek That's not at all what I meant, adding more search engines is totally different feature (and I have added those allready)

I'll try to explain this more clearly (English isn't my native language).

I do not want quick way to change default search engine like anandrkris seemed to suggest. Instead I want option to quickly select "I want to use this search engine for this time only", not changing the default. This could be done by following:

1) Write search phrase to address bar

2) Select search engine to use one time only, from pulley (selection would immediately go to selected search engine with search phrase from step 1.

If you would like to use your default search engine, there would be no need to use pulley at all, just pressing >> from bottom right corner like you do now, with current version of SailfishOS.

Hopefully everyone understood what I meant. :)

huuhaa ( 2015-02-08 20:16:18 +0300 )edit

Yeah, OP is commonly used in forums to refer the original poster. Yes, even i meant the same - changing the default engine to something else temporarily for one time usage.

anandrkris ( 2015-02-09 05:31:49 +0300 )edit
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