575528 - Keyword.Url Not Working (Default Search Engine Search)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Justin Jacob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

after upgrading to  Firefox 3.6.6 Default Search Not Working ,I check about:config
Keyword.url ,its set to google,but if we type any word in address bar its showing host not found error,so i again installed Version 3.6.3,in that version its working,Version 3.6.5 Also same Problem

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
host not Found Error

Comment 1

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

There was no 3.6.5, only 3.6.6. Is keyword.enabled set to true?

Comment 2

[Justin Jacob]

Yes ,Its True

Comment 3

[Matt d'Entremont]

What did you search? If you searched for anything including a colon or period then this would cause the browser to think that you are typing a URL instead of a search query.

Comment 4

[Shane Bundy]

Confirmed here. Reported last week but that bug was closed by me (by accident).

Comment 5

[Shane Bundy]

Also happens in the trunk builds (which was what I was using when I reported the bug originally).

Comment 7

[Shane Bundy]

I thought I was the first to spot this issue. Turns out I wasn't, you were. Good hunting.

Also, does anyone know what changelog caused this? (because I'd be useless. :P)

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this till an issue ?

Comment 9

[Shane Bundy]

I think so. Firefox still hangs sometimes when searching for words in the address bar, mainly on 1 word queries.

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

bug 595148 is about the hang

Comment 11

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

WFM with latest Nightly (Build ID: 20130811030225).

Reporter, do you still see this issue?
Regarding the hang, could you please take a look at bug 595148?

Comment 12

[Timvde]

keyword.URL and keyword.enabled are removed from Firefox in v23. I think this bug is INVALID now.

Comment 13

[travis_koo]

I just upgraded to 23.0 (20130730113002) today and double checked that Firefox is fully updated.

The location bar always takes me to google no matter how many words I type (1 to many).  I have triple checked that Keyword.Url is set to the correct path to use a different search engine but my custom path is ignored.

I did not experience this bug in 22.0 (20130618035212).

Please let me know if I can provide any more additional information to help solve this issue.

Thank you.

Comment 14

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Firefox 23 doesn't use keyword.URL anymore but the selected search engine in the search box. You can get the old behavior back by installing this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/keywordurl-hack/

Closing this back as invalid because the current behavior is by design.