lukami wrote:I see. Then perhaps QuickDrag could have an option to specify the search engine that would open when text is dragged.
Google is my main search engine but I have a few others (IMDb, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc.) that I periodically use. Often I forget to switch back to Google and then my dragged text shows up in IMDb, for example.
And you never drag-to-search with other search engines? I don't think that there should be much of a difference between typed searches and dragged searches. In most cases, if someone has a need for using different engines for typed searches, why not for dragged searches as well? I often switch engines for dragged searches. I might be reading about movies, and I'd switch my engine to IMDb so that my dragged searches go there. I have my engine set to Bugzilla when reading Mozilla-related stuff so that I can drag-to-search bug numbers. This is also consistent with the browser's context menu search, which also uses the currently-selected engine.
I think that this is a niche feature request with limited appeal; I don't think there are many people that need their dragged searches always locked down to one engine while their typed searches float. And the reason I am reluctant to implement niche features (unless they are trivially simple to implement, which this is not: it would involve a UI to let the user pick an engine) is that there are other drag-and-drop extensions that do implement every niche feature imaginable, and what sets QuickDrag apart from the others is that it is the light-weight, simple, and relatively more stable option.
In any case, I suppose I could add an about:config option to always use the "default" engine, since that would have a pretty small footprint. (Firefox provides no UI to configure what the "default" engine is, but it can be manually set in about:config.) But I'm still reluctant to do so; I'll think about it.