I've just looked and websearch plugin seems to work in its current form (0.1.15-1, which hasn't been changed since August afaict), what version are we talking about here and what's the problem?

Edit: looks like this is the version currently in Extras-devel too: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...in-webrequest/

OTOH, the mBarcode UI appears un-responsive while the Hildon conic (is that the name, I forget) web connection popup is being prepared, which we should probably fix.