Thunderbird OpenSearch add-on updated!

[Blake Winton]

We just released a minor update to the OpenSearch add-on for Thunderbird:

http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/2011/02/25/opensearch-updated/

Please leave feedback on that post in this thread!

Thanks,
Blake.
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Blake Winton Mozilla Messaging Developer
bwi...@mozillamessaging.com

[Sergio Andrés Rondán]

Great! Im going to try, the first release doesnt work for me :(

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

On 25/02/11 17:14, Sergio Andrés Rondán wrote:

Great! Im going to try, the first release doesnt work for me :(

Can you describe your not working experince a bit more ?

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Ludo

[Sergio Andrés Rondán]

when i try to find something,The tab is opens but does not search. But
with this update, its works!

Excuse me for my bad english!

> *Ludo*

[Paul Morris]

I like the option to enter web search terms right from Thunderbird, but I'm not interested in doing web browsing in my mail client.  I'd prefer if it opened search results in my default browser (Firefox) instead of Thunderbird.  This could at least be an optional setting, but if it were me I'd save the effort and just make it the default behavior. 

As I posted here:
http://feedback.mozillalabs.com/forums/68185-messaging-add-ons/suggestions/1506687-opensearch-should-open-in-default-browser-not-thu

I typically do a search and then open several of the search results in separate tabs. I want to be able to easily switch back to the search results from those tabs, but if the search results are in Thunderbird I have to switch back and forth between TB and Firefox, which is no fun.

My feedback for what it's worth,
Paul

PS. I don't understand "OpenSearch" as a name for this.  Why not "Thunderbird Web Search" or something like that which tells you what it is.  The term "open" gets thrown around a lot these days so that it starts to lose its meaning. 

[Blake Winton]

On 11-02-25 13:53 , Paul Morris wrote:
> I like the option to enter web search terms right from Thunderbird, but
> I'm not interested in doing web browsing in my mail client. I'd prefer
> if it opened search results in my default browser (Firefox) instead of
> Thunderbird. This could at least be an optional setting, but if it were
> me I'd save the effort and just make it the default behavior.

I don't think we'll make it the default behaviour, but I do see your
point, and it does make sense to me as an option.

> My feedback for what it's worth,

Thank you! I've logged it as
https://github.com/mozilla/opensearch/issues/19

> PS. I don't understand "OpenSearch" as a name for this. Why not
> "Thunderbird Web Search" or something like that which tells you what it
> is. The term "open" gets thrown around a lot these days so that it
> starts to lose its meaning.

The name is because we're using the same code as Firefox's OpenSearch
implementation. See, for example,
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/creating_opensearch_plugins_for_firefox

Also, since we'll probably roll it in to a future version of
Thunderbird, the name isn't _that_ important, since it'll hopefully go
away at some point. :)

[Paul Morris]

On Friday, February 25, 2011 3:20:47 PM UTC-5, Blake Winton wrote:

I don't think we'll make it the default behaviour, but I do see your point, and it does make sense to me as an option.

 

Thanks!   Would be great to see that option.  Also thanks for the explanation on the name.  That makes more sense to me now.

-Paul