182752 - Changing the Default search engine should also change keyword.URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Adrian Bunk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021128 Debian/1.2-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021128 Debian/1.2-1

Yes I know, Internet Keywords are supposed to be something different than Search
results.

But if you change your "Default search engine" in Edit/Preferences it's
completely unintutively that entering some words and hitting enter gives you
search results from Netscape. After some searching about where this annoying
"feature" comes from  I found a description of keyword.URL which does what I
expected. I was very disappointed that the quite exhaustive Preferences dialog
doesn't offer me to set keyword.URL. It shouldn't be a big problem to add below
the "Enable Internet Keywords" checkbox line a choice that allows you to specify
which location you want to use (similar to the "Default search engine" setting).

TIA

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

You are telling it yourself: keywords are not search engines. If I set my
default search engine to dictionary.com, I don't think I can use it as a
keywords server. So automatically switching the keywords URL is certainly not a
solution. Can you give a concrete example?

Comment 2

[benc]

Since IK and Search will not be merged in the near future, this is WONTFIX.

It has taken a while, but I've cleaned up the bugs related to the various issues
mentioned here.

Since you have suggested a specific behavior to keep Search and IK in synch, I'm
not going to dupe this bug (since, in the future, if were were to make a simpler
product that combined or integrated the behavior, this suggestion would be the
best way to make it work).

There is still no pref UI for setting the keyword server (you can use
about:config). Nobody for Mozilla has complained enough to file a bug wanting
this to be pref UI configurable, although it seems that there is growing
interest in FireFox for this.

If you concur, please mark verified.