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NumeriusNegidius / Context-Search

A Firefox WebExtension that displays a context menu, that searches for the selected text.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/context-search-we/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Is there any way to integrate Mycroft searches? #22

Closed WolfganP closed 7 years ago

WolfganP commented 7 years ago

FOA, thx a lot for this extension. The Context Search addon I was using wasn't updated to WE and I was really missing this functionality.

I agree with other commenters on the fact that the ideal situation will be an integrated repository of search engines between this context search extension and FF's own implementation (about:preferences#search) so omnibar and context searches go hand in hand, but I also understand WE makes that impossible at this time.

So to simplify the installation of multiple context search engines, is there any way Mycroft project (http://mycroftproject.com/dlstats.html) could be integrated to this addon somehow? Thanks!

NumeriusNegidius commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! The keyword bookmarks are by design made for the Awesome Bar in Firefox. As I understand it, Mycroft plugins are just opensearch plugins which would require some sort of import method, but since adding a keyword bookmark in Firefox takes about 10 seconds, I think it’s hard to justify the added complexity of importing Mycroft plugins which would require several clicks and probably interaction with the file system. I fail to se the benefit.