123968 - search when the location contains a space char

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79655

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Steuph]

When the user types the word "mozilla" into the location form of any web browser
window, this word is evaluated as "http://www.mozilla.com" since it could be a
valid url. If he types something like "mozilla great", or any string containing
a space char " ", this makes an error since Mozilla tries to evaluate an invalid
url "http://www.mozilla great.com" ...
A great option would be to make a search for the words "mozilla great" into your
favorite search engine when the user hit "return" after any space separated
words of the location.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

according to comment http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58867#c8
this should work if you have Internet Keywords enabled.

Comment 2

[Steuph]

You are right, the internet keywords options allmost do the work. I just would
like them to use the raw search engine and to not use the Netscape integrated
search site.

According to http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html I can use
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mozilla+great&sourceid=mozilla-search
instead of the default :
http://search-intl.netscape.com/fr/google.tmpl?cp=clkfrsrp&charset=UTF-8&all=yes&cat=World/Fran%E7ais&search=mozilla+great&lr=lang_fr

This feature is great and it would be integrated into the preference pane, after
an "Advanced..." botton replacing the "More Information..." botton. The user
would not have to edit his prefs.js file for this feature.

Comment 3

[John Levon]

Should be duped to the "spaces should mean search" bug I think ?

Comment 4

[Joshua Goldberg]

some more motivation for implementing this suggestion:

if you type a complex query (say, site:cs.indiana.edu forms grad) and hit
return, forgetting to explicitly select a search, www.site.com comes up, and
then (even though "site:cs.indiana.edu forms grad" is kept in the history) the
search string cannot be usefully recovered for a search, so you have to
reconstruct the query.  (you can't copy and paste from the pulldown history, and
if you select it, mozilla just gives you site.com again.)

Alternately, if the first word of the search does not successfully find a DNS
hit, the browser waits without timeout until you stop it.  (In this case if you
stop it you can just click search)

Comment 5

[John Levon]

Read the bug, this is a correct dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79655 ***

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 150956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 156720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Sander]

*** Bug 176813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Sander]

*** Bug 185273 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Charles Fenwick]

*** Bug 212917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***