Closed Bug 147667 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

location bar search doesn't work after accidentally trying to use search terms as url

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Location Bar
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135363

People

(Reporter: sockbot, Assigned: hewitt)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

Sometimes when I want to use the url bar to search google, I press enter instead
of pressing tab/down arrow to select "search google". when mozilla says that it
couldn't find the domain i requested, i can't use the keyboard to re-enter the
search properly from the drop down menu. using the mouse and left clicking works
fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter some search terms into the URL bar ie, search terms
2. Press Enter
3. When http://search terms/ is not found, press alt-tab to go back to the URL bar
4. Use the keyboard to select "search google for search terms"
5. Press Enter

Actual Results:  Mozilla tries again to go to the site http://search terms/

Expected Results:  Mozilla should redirect to google or equivalent.

In this case, using the mouse to select from the drop down menu works, but
keyboard operation only does not. Have not tried with other search engines
besides google.
*** Bug 149939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 149548 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 140268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 147858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
URL: http://n/a
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: using keyboard to use built in search function doesn't work when tried after accidentally entering search terms as a url → location bar search doesn't work after accidentally trying to use search terms as url
*** Bug 151268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 152686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The URL bar search functionality is really cool, but I often forget to press the
down arrow for Google and get caught in this trap.

A nice usability enhancement would be to make search the default whenever the
text typed in the URL bar includes a space, which shouldn't appear in a URL.
What about making search the default if the text typed does not contain a
period? Not all search terms will be two or more words, but I believe the period
is ignored in google searches. Would this adversely affect double-byte character
sets, such as big5 Chinese?
> What about making search the default if the text typed does not contain a
period?

A single word input without periods or spaces is a perfectly valid hostname,
e.g. 'localhost'.  It would probably not be a good idea to make search the
default behaviour in this instance as most networks with DNS configured access
machines directly by hostname, and would then be required to type "http://"
before any local domain request.
I'd say, it would be enough, if Mozilla recognizes search by spaces. Because if
you only type one word Mozilla adds www. at the beginning and .com at the end.
So you get a failure message or see (probably) the homepage you searched for ;-). 
This is a dup of bug 135363.
I'm proposing a patch to it - which should solve this bug too... :-)
*** Bug 147705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 154714 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 156335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135363 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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