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Bug 753774 - "Search the Web for ..." - could open with default browser
"Search the Web for ..." - could open with default browser
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 720245
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: search
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-08-18 20:18 UTC by Luis Henrique Mello
Modified: 2015-08-19 10:43 UTC
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Description Luis Henrique Mello 2015-08-18 20:18:24 UTC 
Currently, web search within the overview search will open Epiphany and it's default search engine.

It would be nice to open the web search with the desktop's default browser of your choice from Settings -> Details -> Default Applications (ex. if I set up Firefox as my default browser, whe overview search facility would open Firefox with its default search engine instead of Epiphany)
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2015-08-19 10:43:06 UTC 
(In reply to Luis Henrique Mello from comment #0)
> Currently, web search within the overview search will open Epiphany and it's
> default search engine.

That's because the "Search the web" result is provided by epiphany - together with results from bookmarks and browsing history. It would be possible (while odd) for epiphany to launch a different browser when "Search the web" is activated, but implementing the other results for different browsers would be really weird.
The correct solution (IMHO) is to ask other browser vendors to implement the shell's search interface just like epiphany.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 720245 ***