Comment 9 for bug 822780

So your idea is removing the existing search and add buttons and adding them as a drop-down, context-sensitive button-menu?
 I like the idea but have some reservations:
- where should the drop-down appear?
- whats the advised time-lag before it appears? instantly would be annoying and too slow would go against the quick part

As for identifying a active search, in the tags menu i haded another item for searches. I propose that at any search instance that menu is shown and given focus, as to indicate the search is active. The user could them select other tags and return to the search when wanted.

I'm currently also in the process of saving searches as "views", that would be sub-items (child's) of the search tag and saving them with a reasonable limit (maybe 5?)