Treestyletab: Drag and dropping text on empty space in sidebar adds header to the text, overriding default setting.

Created on 14 Nov 2017 · 7Comments · Source: piroor/treestyletab

Short description

Drag and dropping text on empty space in sidebar adds header to the text, overriding default setting which is searching the said text.

Steps to reproduce

Start Firefox with clean profile.
Install TST.
Select any text (non-link) from any page
Drag and drop over any empty space in sidebar.

Expected result

It should search (or something else if overridden) the text that dropped over sidebar. It works without any issue when dropping over default tab bar of Firefox 57.

Actual result

Example for "test12": moz-extension://30ffdb85-3182-4e3b-9444-5b236ba3a4f8/background/test12

Environment

Platform (OS): Windows 10, Fall Creators Update
Version of Firefox: 57
Version (or revision) of Tree Style Tab: 2.2.3

fixed

Source

kapkic

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Most helpful comment

Done by 15c301d.

piroor on 16 Oct 2018

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All 7 comments

Due to limitations of WebExtensions APIs, it can't be implemented for now. We need more API to retrieve installed (default) search engine. See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352598

piroor on 15 Nov 2017

After such an API is introduced, we need to retrieve search engines and convert non-URI value to a search URI at:
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/blob/c23d2a9050b99b781524f6c3435f12ce77b5cc3b/webextensions/sidebar/drag-and-drop.js#L380
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/blob/c23d2a9050b99b781524f6c3435f12ce77b5cc3b/webextensions/common/tree/base.js#L718

piroor on 15 Nov 2017

Hoping Mozilla can add the support for this very soon because this is very vital for my workflow. I can survive with right click > search for now but this is a major inconvenience for me as well!

oxysoft on 31 Dec 2017

Can we have a manual workaround for FF "regression" like what "ContextSearch web-ext" has implemented?
Since search engine is not meant to be changed so often (if not at all)