157120 - In location bar, the 'search google for "<string>"' does not work after change of focus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135363

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Will Jenkins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020711
BuildID:    2002071108

When keywords to be searched on are entered in the address bar, if the user
presses return instead of pressing search then Mozilla tries to find the
keywords as a URL. However, this is not the bug I'm reporting.
The bug I have is that, once that mistake has been made, if you click in the
address bar and edit the string of text and then press the down arrow to bring
up the Search [EngineNAME] for "" thingy, and then press down again to select it
and press enter, the browser once again attepmts to retrieve the text as an URL.
Please do not suggest that the option that pops down when you type in keywords
is supposed to behave like this, because it isn't. Normally you can use the
downarrow keys and press enter.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Replace the URL in the address bar at the top of this page with "foo foo foo"
(no quotes)
2. Hit enter
3. An error message pops up saying, "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded."
(This is irritating, why can mozilla not recognise urls with spaces as search
keywords?)
4. Ok the error message. Click so that the cursor is flashing at the end of foo
foo foo (you may need to click twice as the first click selects the text and the
second positions the cursor).
5. Press the down key twice, notice how it appears as though the search option
is highlighted, press enter - as if to select the search option.
6. The same "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded." error appears but this
time the option menu stays open, over the top of the error message. (Screen shot
available on request).

Actual Results:  Mozilla should use the keywords foo foo foo to search using the
search engine specified in the preferences.

Expected Results:  Mozilla tries to load the keywords as a URL and fails.

Comment 1

[James McCoy]

seeing this on Win2k build 2002071108 too

Comment 2

[Will Jenkins]

Confirming - for all platforms

Comment 3

[Dan Mellem]

Just about to submit this same bug. It only works if the text on the bar is
changed (e.g., by adding a space). It used to be a problem to even edit the text
before doing the search but that works now.

Comment 4

[Stephan Fuhrmann]

Confirm this bug on LINUX.

Starting with 1.1 (build 20020826) there also an additional problem:

Under some circumstances, entering some search term in the URL bar, then
pressing CURSOR down to get to the search function and then hitting ENTER
doesn't work (nothing is loaded, nothing happens - i have to enter www.google.de
to search directly).

This never happened with Mozi 1.0.

I think URL bar search should be re-inspected / re-worked.

Comment 5

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

*** Bug 172214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

make summary more clear. off to URL Bar component

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 153186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135363 ***

Comment 9

[Nick Bebout]

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