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odebroqueville / contextSearch

Firefox add-on to search selected text in a web page using your favorite search engines from a context menu or from a grid of icons.
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Double clicking in empty text box opens some contextSearch window #197

Open kapitainsky opened 2 weeks ago

kapitainsky commented 2 weeks ago

An image is worth a thousand words so short video will be even better:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c3b32fcd-f0f7-4ed5-9ffd-b3405c3be419

not even sure what exact words describe this contextSearch behaviour. Double clicking at empty text box triggers "something". I have not found anything in settings to disable it. Double click at empty form and voila - magic contextSearch window opens. This trick is amusing initially but becomes bothersome when happening again and again.

For reference I used this site: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/11/07/which-m4-chip-and-model/

But what I can see so far it happens on any site with form where Firefox suggests some previously entered values. It does not happen when nothing is suggested as either Firefox has nothing to offer or this action is suppressed by site itself (as this site search at the top of this page)

odebroqueville commented 1 week ago

@kapitainsky It's not a bug. As laid out in the README note (see last bullet point below), it's a feature!!

CleanShot 2024-11-10 at 16 03 04@2x

You're the first user out of 5'000 users and 10 years of existence to complain about it.

Would you please explain in what circumstances you need to double-click in a form.

kapitainsky commented 1 week ago

You're the first user out of 5'000 users and 10 years of existence to complain about it.

hahaha. Sorry for that. Must be my way of interacting with text fields.

Would you please explain in what circumstances you need to double-click in a form.

I do often without even thinking to show drop down list of suggestions (previously entered values) so I can choose correct one. This is what double click does..

For sure it is not something I can not live with. So if I am the only one complaining and everybody thinks that it is normal behaviour then let it be.

Still would be nice IMO to be able to turn it off but I do understand it is only my wish with very low priority.

odebroqueville commented 1 week ago

Ok, I'll keep this on my radar, but like you said: it's not a high priority. Please bare in mind that you won't be able to add search engines using HTTP POST requests if you decided to disable this feature.