Special characters * ^ % + # $ lose special meaning when between words
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: gilward.kukel, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0
Steps to reproduce:
Type e * a in the address bar.
Actual results:
- does not have special meaning (show only bookmarks).
Expected results:
The list under the address bar should show only bookmarks with "e" and "a", like "* e a" and "e a *" do. It is the same with the other special characters.
It still worked for example in Firefox 64.
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Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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This is expected, having tokens in the middle of search string was confusing users and returning unexpected results, the tokens can only be put at the beginning or end of the search string.
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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So now it is confusing users that the help article is wrong:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_changing-results-on-the-fly
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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yes, that article should be updated, it's wrong.
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Comment 4•6 years ago
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I corrected the article
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