Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

The mozbrowseropensearch event is fired when a link to a search engine is found — i.e. when an instance of <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"> is encountered.

General info

Specification
Non standard
Interface
CustomEvent
Bubbles
Yes
Cancelable
Yes
Target
<iframe>
Default Action
None

Properties

Property Type Description
target Read only EventTarget The browser iframe
type Read only DOMString The type of event.
bubbles Read only Boolean Whether the event normally bubbles or not.
cancelable Read only Boolean Whether the event is cancellable or not.
details Read only Object A custom object.

details

The details property returns an anonymous JavaScript object with the following properties:

title
A DOMString representing the title of the search engine.
href
A DOMString representing URL of the search engine.

Example

var browser = document.querySelector("iframe");

browser.addEventListener("mozbrowseropensearch", function( event ) {
  console.log("New search engine encountered: " + event.details.title);
});

See also