118114 - "Google" sidebar does not work for non-*.com Google sites

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

The "Google" search sidebar does not work for any country-specfic google pages
like http://www.google.de/ or http://www.google.co.jp/

When I start a query with www.google.com the sidebar gets filled with the search
results, but when I do the same query with www.google.de nothing happens in the
sidebar ... ;-(

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this the mozilla search sidebar you mean?  Or the google sidebar that you can 
install off the google site?

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

The google sherlock that mozilla (and netscape6) ship with contain query URLs to
google.com.  Thus, if a query contains any other domain the match fails.  What
you are looking for is a localized google sherlock file.  Essentially, the
sherlock plugin for google.de would be different than the sherlock plugin for
google.com.  I'm not sure if such a sherlock plugin (for google.de or
google.co.jp) exists.  Maybe Tao can help you on that front.

Comment 3

[tao]

CC l10n engineer - yxia.

Comment 4

[Ying-Lin Xia]

Right, in the google sherlock file "SBWeb_02.src", the URL is:
  action="http://info.netscape.com/fwd/lksidus_gg/http://www.google.com/search"
Thus, when you search on google.com, the sidebar will get filled, but if you 
search on google.de or google.co.jp, nothing happens on the sidebar.

This is same with other search engines. For example, if you don't have German 
Netscape search engine installed, and if you search on netscape.de, nothing 
happens on the sidebar either.

We only have localized Netscape Search, but not the others.

For testing, you can modify the URL in the sherlock file, to google.de for 
example, then you will see the sidebar changes when you searh on google.de.

Comment 5

[Ying-Lin Xia]

CCing netcenter people, cause we have google and goto search engine included 
for DE, but in English. We may need to consider to localize those sherlock 
files.

Comment 6

[sujay]

verified.

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

I suggest to add (at least) localisations for japanese (*.co.jp), german (*.de)
and french (*.fr).
Or we ask the Google people to enlight us which locales they support and which
domain names are connected with that ...