116584 - Search results do not appear in sidebar search tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Peter Trudelle]

Using NS 0.9.7, build 2001122106 on Win2K

go to URL.
search for something that will give results.
Result: Search results in web page, like any other browser
Expected: Results also show up in sidebar search results.

Note that this is the case even if I have the sidebar open, with the search
results panel active, with Google as my selected search engine.  Also, my pref
'Open search tab in sidebar when search results are available' is checked.

Note: typical users do not distinguish between web content and chrome, indeed
they have no concept of either, it is all just 'the browser', so they do not
distinguish between how they started a search, and expect to see the results
consistently displayed.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

Can't reproduced on cited platform and build (commercial).  Can't reproduce on a
current trunk mozilla build either.  Tested using ``java'' as the search term
and Google as the engine, per testcase.

Peter,
Is this consistently reproducible?  Are there are any errors/warnings reported
in the JS console?  What search term did you use?  

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

Yes, 100%. Just tried again using 'java', no results in JS Console (or sidebar
search results).  Something may be horked on my side though, because I just
crashed trying to search from the sidebar search panel

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

Curiouser!  After restart, search in sidebar worked, no crash, and after that a
google search put the results in the sidebar too.  Claudius, could you please
try to find a minimal reproducible case for this?

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

Seeing this again in 2002011803 build in Win2K.  Claudius, do you ever see this?

Comment 5

[Joshua Ochs]

I am seeing a bug similar to this with google searches on Windows 2000. Any
search performed with the Google sidebar does not show any results in the
sidebar. Searches with other engines work (maybe Google's results format has
changed?). This occurs on build 2002050104 and earlier 0.99 and 1.0rc1 builds.

For example, search for "My Test" using Google on the sidebar. Search is
performed and shown in the web page area; no results are shown in the sidebar.
Next/Prev buttons work; still no results shown.

Comment 6

[Kasumi]

For Linux, this problem occurred not only google, occuurred on all engines.

Comment 7

[Kasumi]

Please ignore Comment #6. Sorry.

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

wfm using ns branch build 2002050106

Comment 9

[Kasumi]

Comment #6 revivals on 2002-07-17-07-1.0 on RedHat 7.1 JA.
 

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126"

I selected Google as my Search engine, and auto-opening, and I am using the
Google site only... (for this test)

I have 2 bugs:


     1) Sidebar does not react (the bug reported so far)
        (Search tab does not activate, Search Results stays empty)

Testcase:
 1. Start Mozilla, open the sidebar, select a tab which is not "Search"
 2. Go to <www.google.com> (redirects me to .fr, but I don't think that it
matters !?)
 3. Enter "mozilla" (;-))

 NB: URL is
<http://www.google.fr/search?q=mozilla&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=fr&btnG=Recherche+Google&meta=>

Workaround:
 Use the URL bar to search with the Google engine...

 NB: URL is
<http://www.google.com/search?q=mozilla&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0>

Bottom line:
 *Testcase and workaround can then be reduced to typing their respective URLs
(tried with "java")
 *The sidebar works with the URL used by Mozilla "engine", but not with the URL
from the Google page.


	2) Sidebar (and tab) does not activate automatically

Testcase:
 1. Start Mozilla, open the sidebar, select a tab which is not "Search", close
the sidebar, close Mozilla (!!)
 2. (re)Start Mozilla
 3. Use the URL bar to search with the Google engine...

Results:
 Sidebar stays hidden.

Workaround (in 2 steps :-<):
 1. F9 (open sidebar): the Search tab does not activate (second part of the bug)
 2. select the Search tab: it fills up with the results :-)

 NB: Do the same Testcase, but open and close the sidebar at step 2;
     now, the sidebar and the Search tab will activate at step 3 !

PS: I don't think that anything appears in the JS console.

Comment 11

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507]

Bug still there. (with v1.3 profile, at least)


Confirming my comment 10:
Only the URL bar link has changed and is now
<http://www.google.com/search?q=mozilla&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8>

Comment 12

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Addition to comment 11 (and 10):

The Mozilla auto-configuration file is 
<?:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\searchplugins\google.src>.

	1) (Sidebar does not react)

I was wrong: the issue is the google (web) redirection :-(
Verified by swapping 'com <-> fr' in the two URLs from testcase.

The 'google.src' only handle <www.google.com>, not <www.google.fr>.
Furthermore, <http://www.google.fr/mozilla/google.src> returns the same file
with <www.google.com> :-((

Then, the fix may come from Google, without any action from Mozilla (code):
(It's like Tech-Evangelism or internationalization ;-))
Mozilla (.org) should agree with Google to have all <www.google.*> sites return
a customized 'google.src' file, in the same way they redirect web access.

In my case, I would have the following steps:
1. Mozilla is installed, google.src points to www.google.com
2. When Mozilla would first check for update (at first launch, when accessing
www.mozilla.org/start/ !?),
   Google.com returns a file pointing to www.google.fr
3. Now, my web site requests should be recognized by the sidebar.

a) Of course, one could wonder why I would use the web site if the sidebar works !
   Well, I guess I would do so only untill I eventually get used to using the
sidebar :->

b) A "better" solution could be to handle all www.google.* sites in a single
file: is it possible ?


Re Description to comment 9:
Can you check your reports with a recent build ?
Do you (still) have this issue but directly with the www.google.com site ??

Comment 13

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Addition to comment 10:

	2) Sidebar (and tab) does not activate automatically

Could it be that some initialisation/binding/event_handling is missing/failing
at Navigator startup and only happens when the sidebar is first opened ?

Comment 14

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Addition to my comment 12:

a) I see another reason to use the web site:
I believe that, with the sidebar, I cannot start a search on pages in French
language only !

Comment 15

[Chase Tingley]

Linux 03071705: Seeing this problem when using netscape.com, bugzilla, or dmoz
searches, but not with google, lxr, or mozilla.org searches.

The problem occurs regardless of whether the search terms are entered in the URL
bar or in the search panel itself.

Comment 16

[Andrew Schultz]

is anyone still seeing this with a recent build?

Comment 17

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #16)
> is anyone still seeing this with a recent build?

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511] (release) (W98SE)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531] (nightly) (W98SE)

"2) Sidebar (and tab) does not activate automatically"
(would) seems to have been fixed :-)

"The 'google.src' only handle <www.google.com>, not <www.google.fr>."
seems to be an 'Google) issue yet :-|

Comment 18

[Andrew Schultz]

ok, resolving WORKSFORME

Serge, can you file a new bug for the google.fr problem?