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=== Firefox 2 Alpha 1 ===
=== Firefox 2 Alpha 1 ===
*Functionally equivalent JS-implemented search backend (nsISearchService)
*Functionally equivalent JS-implemented search backend (nsISearchService)
*Removal of nsInternetSearchService from the Firefox build
*Seamless search plugin migration
*Seamlesss search plugin migration
*Web addition API


=== Firefox 2 Alpha 2 ===
=== Firefox 2 Alpha 2 ===
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*UI Changes and refinements (engine ordering/management UI)
*UI Changes and refinements (engine ordering/management UI)
*Search auto-detection
*Search auto-detection
*Web addition API


= Overview =
= Overview =
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= Discussion & Implications =
= Discussion & Implications =
About the topic
''There are a couple of basic usability issues with the Firefox search box: it is not necessarily obvious to an IE user what it does ''
I don't think that is valid any more since the new IE which implements this searchbar


== Discussion Elsewhere ==
== Discussion Elsewhere ==
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* Installation
* Installation
**[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124334 Bug 124334]Should display an error message when failing to add a search engine
**[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124334 Bug 124334]Should display an error message when failing to add a search engine
* What IE7's doing
**[http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/07/527266.aspx IEBlog : Searching is better in Beta 2!]
* and Opera9
**[http://my.opera.com/mitchman2/blog/show.dml/133235 Search engines in Opera 9 Technology Preview 2]
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