Extension Request:MouseWheel in Toolbar search box to switch

[Zeuradin]

I'm not sure if such an extension exists already, I couldn't find it after half an hour of digging through the available extensions so I thought I'll try here.

This extension would let you change the search engine from eg. Google to Wikipedia on the toolbar search box that comes with the default Firefox, by scrolling the mouse wheel up/down while hovering over the search box.

The purpose is to reduce the number of clicks. Right now, to change the search engine, you need to click the icon of the currently selected engine, then click another one from the dropdown menu.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm hoping if someone out there can create this extension if one doesn't already exist. I unfortunately don't have the skills to do it myself.

[einare]

I might be able to help you if I can find the time, quite busy with work at the moment. But if anyone else wants to give it a shot, here's what you need to get started: (This is the main overlay js file).

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var SearchBarScroll = {

    onLoad : function(event) {

        this.searchbar = document.getElementById('searchbar');
        this.searchbar.addEventListener('DOMMouseScroll', function (event) { SearchBarScroll.scroll(event); }, false);
    },

    scroll : function(event) {
        alert('scrolling the searchbar');
        //do your thing here.
    }

};
window.addEventListener('load', function(event) { SearchBarScroll.onLoad(event); }, false);

[einare]

Well, I got bored and finished the extension. You can get it at:

http://tech.einaregilsson.com/download/ ... ngines.xpi

For some reason the name doesn't show up in the installation dialog, I don't know why.

Let me know if there are any problems.

einar


p.s. For those interested, the entire source code of the extension is this:

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var ScrollSearchEngines = {

    onLoad : function(event) {

        var sb = document.getElementById('searchbar');
        sb.addEventListener('DOMMouseScroll', function (e) { ScrollSearchEngines.scroll(e); }, false); 
    },
    
    scroll : function(event) {
      BrowserSearch.getSearchBar().selectEngine(event, event.detail > 0);
    }
    
};

window.addEventListener('load', function(event) { ScrollSearchEngines.onLoad(event); }, false);

[Zeuradin]

Wow that's exactly what I wanted! Thank you very much =)