135471 - The # character is not escaped for custom keywords

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123006

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Alex Stewart]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020401
BuildID:    2002040108

When using a custom keyword to search Google, a pound sign will not be escaped
as %23, causing the remainder of the search string to be ignored.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a bookmark with URL http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnG=Google+Search
and keyword g.
2. Open a new tab
3. Type "g 90# phone scam" (w/o quotes) into the URL bar.

Actual Results:  Google searched for 90.

Expected Results:  Google searched for 90# phone scam.

Google correctly searches for 90# phone scam if you go to the main page and type
the string into the form and press search.

Is Mozilla doing the correct thing by not escaping the #? (i.e. should this be
an evang. bug?)  Note that you can get the correct results by typing "g 90%23
phone scam".

Comment 1

[benc]

Actually a bookmarks issue. I think they are just doing a string-append, so what
yo type is what you get.

You probably need some bookmarklet/javascript widget to do the escaping for you.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123006 ***

Comment 3

[Alex Stewart]

Yup.  It's a dup.