121893 - The engine of search result in browser is not match the one that marked in Sidebar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Yuying Long]

Build: 01-25 trunk build on all platforms

Steps:
1. Launch browser, and enable My Sidebar.
2. My Sidebar | Search tab, select a search engine which is different than Netscape.
3. Click on "OK" in the alert message dialog to confirm the changing for default
search engine, e.g. Google.
4. Type some words into the search text field in Sidebar, e.g. "this is"...etc.
5. Click on "Search", then you will get the search result which were through the
search engine that specified in step 2.

6. Type some search words in URL location bar.
7. You will get a text string: search Google for "xxxxx xxxx" - the search
engine here will match the setting in step 2.

8.a. Hit ENTER to get the search result, then you will find the search result
were using Netscape no matter which engine you selected in step 2.
  b. Click on "search" button next to URL bar, then you get the search result by
Google.

In step 8.a., I expected the search result would generated by google.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

Hitting enter behaves as though you clicked the search button.  This is by design.

Comment 2

[Yuying Long]

Is that mean by design, hit enter will always go to netscape search no matter
how you setting your search preferences?

If so, I don't think it's a good idea that when you type something in URL bar,
then you will get the string tells you "search GOOGLE for ..." (the search
engine will generated by the search preferences setting), even when you hit
enter will go to netscape search.

I'm re-openning it for re-consideration.

Comment 3

[Samir Gehani]

I'll let Todd handle the enhancememt request.  This issue has been raised time
and again.

Comment 4

[Todd Pringle]

Ylong, the enter behavior is distinct in that it does not behave like a normal
search - typing anything in the URL field and hitting enter affects the
following sequence:

a) we try to resolve it as a valid URL.  if this fails, we
b) send the request to the Netscape keywords server to try to resolve it as a
known keyword.  if this fails,
c) the Netscape keyword server fails over to Netscape Search

This is as designed.  Users can easily choose to EXPLICITLY generate a search by
either a) typing their term in the field and clicking enter or b) typing their
term in the field and arrowing down to the URL dropdown menu item "search Google
for [  ]"

If you'd like to discuss the reasoning behind this more, feel free to send me an
email or give me a call.