1) the search in the search box which is quite sane
2) context search (ie select a word in text, right click, "Search with X for word" is in the menu)
- X is the search engine selected in the search box - not sure this is the best thing to do but at leas controllable somehow
3) search in the location bar (ie when I mistype an URL)
- always Google, no pref UI for this to be found except perhas something in about:config
- very bad
- probably a regression since Mozilla - it had an UI pref pane for search
Currently in FF3 I get
1) the search in the search box which is quite sane
2) context search (ie select a word in text, right click, "Search with X for word" is in the menu)
- X is the search engine selected in the search box - not sure this is the best thing to do but at leas controllable somehow
3) search in the location bar (ie when I mistype an URL)
- always Google, no pref UI for this to be found except perhas something in about:config
- very bad
- probably a regression since Mozilla - it had an UI pref pane for search