1370000 - Clicking on a one-off search button should open the search engine page even with an empty field

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P2)

Description

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

This is how the search bar one-off buttons work. From bug 694291 comment 22:

> Might a make a suggestion?  The search bar allows me to click on a search
> engine and I will be taken there without having to place anything in the
> search bar itself.  However, the URL bar requires a search argument.  If you
> want the URL bar to have the same functionality as the search bar perhaps
> you should allow no search items too.  I make use of this using Google Maps
> for example.  It will take me right to GM where I most often get directions
> from the places that I saved in Google Maps. On the URL bar I have to put at
> least one character on the bar in order to get me to Google Maps.

The first click will have to be on the history drop down arrow (right side of the location bar), but a click afterwards on a one-off button should open the search engine.

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Due to bug 1547671, the one-off buttons aren't shown with an empty field, so I'll close this. (Resolving as "invalid" seems like the most accurate choice since the circumstances for this bug don't occur anymore, but I don't mean to suggest it wasn't ever a valid bug :-)