Wider Search Engines Listbox

[dracho]

Ideally, the width Search Engines box should be dynamic. Give the user a handle to drag to resize.

At the very least, the width should be increased to a fixed value.

As seen in this screenshot, search engines (or custom searches...) with long names get cut off. The names also run into the nicknames, which looks bad. In addition to being able to resize the listbox or at least making it wider, there should be a tiny margin of whitespace (in the case of my theme, a "darkspace") right after the search engine's Name, so even if it is scrunched, it won't run-on into the Nickname column.

[Pesala]

@dracho Surely, the way to solve this dilemma is to edit the Search Engine's name?

It also makes the search with menu look a lot tidier.

[dracho]

... Telling me to use shorter names is not a solution...

This is a browser that touts awesome customization features... I should be able to name my search engines more than 23 characters without my interface looking bad.

Look at how much wasted space is to the right of all the options... Granted, this screenshot was from my ultrawide monitor.

I have another feature request: Don't arbitrarily determine search engine dropdown height. I'm not sure why I wouldn't want all of my search engines to be displayed, but instead must scroll once I get to an arbitrary point...

[Pesala]

@dracho said in Wider Search Engines Listbox:

Telling me to use shorter names is not a solution...

It is a simple workaround that I am sure that many users would find useful. I have never noticed a problem as I do not display settings in a tab. If anything needs more width, it is the URL field.

Try displaying settings in a dialogue to see how the fields stack vertically when reducing the dialogue width.

Re: Search Engine drop list height

Vote for Dynamically Resize the Search Engine List

[LonM]

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