Idea #5853: We need a Firefox Search Engine widget for Launchpad

Firefox 3 has the ability to add search engines to the Search bar for a wide variety of sites. These widgets let you search the specific site without first going there. Launchpad needs one of these widgets. Otherwise you have to first go to Launchpad, then perform your search.

Also, Firefox 3 allows you to select text and search in the currently selected site which would improve the ability to find things on Launchpad immensely. Imagine coming across something on Brainstorm that you're pretty sure has a bug filed already but it wasn't included in the idea yet. You could highlight the appropriate text, make sure LP was the selected search widget, then right click and search Launchpad for it. The search would open in a new tab, allowing you to still have the Brainstorm tab open. That's what a LP search widget would provide, and if it were referenced in the LP HTML code (which shouldn't be that hard to do once the widget were made) then to discover it all someone would have to do is check their list of search engines while on Launchpad and it's availability would be shown for easy installation.

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