The way in which I use the searchbar is that I have one search engine that I use almost exclusively. I have other engined defined, but they are all of the type that I do a single search using them and then want to go back tot he default engine for subsequent searches. I suspect a lot of people use the searchbar in this manner. It would be nice if there were a simple way in the UI to accomplish a single search using a non-default engine without changing the default search engine. The thing that finally got me to submit a bug on this was the addition of the bugzilla quick search. I now seem to often end up with the default search engine set to bugzilla and find myself accidentally searching bugzilla for things like "sd flash card". I prose adding a context menu to the magnifying glass icon on the searchbar that lists all the installed search engines. SO you could have your default search engine set to Google, type a bug number into the searchbar, right-click on the magnifying glass and select bugzilla, and that would look up the bug in bugzilla, but leave the default search engine set to Google.

Or an about:config setting to reset to default after every search? Or after every browser restart?

Ignore previous comment; this is bug 356332.

the "second search" add-on does this nicely

(In reply to comment #4) > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348570 *** i think not. the current bug discusses context menu on the magnifying glass icon, where the other is context menu on selected text.

But it's the same idea. Just 2 different suggestions on implementation. I reported this bug and I am fine with it being marked as a dupe.

actually, while the implementation of the suggested solution UI is quite similar, these are two different workflows. the "context search" add-on which is discussed in bug 348570 duped over to bug 248173, does not address the search bar workflow. therefore this has not been considered, when the bug was resolved wontfix.