1837624 - Address bar with selected search engine: ? at start of search term is ignored

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[gilward.kukel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0

Steps to reproduce:

Select search engine in address bar, e.g. Google.
Type ?qwe.
Press Enter.

Actual results:

Google searches for "qwe".

Expected results:

Google should search for "?qwe".

Comment 1

[gilward.kukel]

And when the search term starts with ? and a space, they are removed and the default search engine is selected.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

What's your use case to search for "?something"?

This is actually working by design, because for the Address Bar the question mark is a special character limiting the search to only Search Suggestions from the default engine. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1545336 is related as it will require to add a space after restriction tokens, but we're not yet sure whether it will be done for the question mark.

Comment 5

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! I have managed to reproduce the issue with firefox 118.0a1(2023-08-17), 117.0b8 and 106.0.2 on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04.
I will mark this issue as NEW in order to get our developers involved and set the corresponding flags accordingly.

Have a nice day!

Comment 6

[James Teow [:jteow]]

Indeed while using search mode, we shouldn't be stripping the restriction token (?). So this is indeed a bug.

Comment 7

[Zoyashah]

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Comment 8

[Mandy Cheang [:mcheang][she/her]]

Attachment: Bug 1837624 - When a user is in search mode, the symbol ? at the beginning of the search string should not be marked as restrict token. r=mak

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/27b22407ab5b
When a user is in search mode, the symbol ? at the beginning of the search string should not be marked as restrict token. r=mak

Comment 10

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/27b22407ab5b

Comment 11

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop QA [:oardelean]]

Reproducible on a 2024-05-05 Nightly build on Windows 10.
Verified as fixed on Firefox Nightly 128.0a1 and Firefox 127.0b1 on Windows 10, macOS 12, Ubuntu 22.