1289972 - Keyword search (with bookmark) incorrectly encodes space as "+"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[fireattack [:fireattack]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set a bookmark with keyword and %s (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s)
2.  search a term with space (assuming the keyword is w, search "w ab cd)


Actual results:

It uses "ab+cd" (i.e replaced space to "+").


Expected results:

It should use "ab%cd".

Firstly this is inconsistent from the desktop Firefox. In desktop Firefox (checked in Nightly), it would use  "ab%20cd". 

While it works just the same for most search queue parameters, it doesn't work well in some other cases where websites distinguish them.

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s will treat ab+cd and ab%20cd differently.

(I KNEW there are other ways to search Wikipedia. Just an example.)

Comment 1

[fireattack [:fireattack]]

By the way, is there any way to set keyword for search engines on Android?

Comment 2

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