185273 - option to automatically search nonlegal urls

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123968

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Ezequiel Martín Cámara]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I would like to search on the contents of the URL bar by just hitting Enter, not
having to hit the down arrow first. If the concern is that any mistyped URL
would send you to the search engine a la MSExplorer, then make it a configurable
disabled-by-default option, and only search in the case of an illegal URL (right
now it opens an alert window saying "the URL is illegal and cannot be opened",
so it means I hit four keys to do a search: <enter> instintively, <enter> again
to close the alert window, <down> to select "search google for" and <enter> again.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type "oral sex" in the URL bar
2.Hit <enter>


Actual Results:  
It opened an alert window

Expected Results:  
Give me oral sex.

I mean, a search.

No additional information.

Comment 1

[Sander]

This should work already. You need to enable internet keywords and set the pref:
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.com/search?q=");
- see http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html

related bug 53171

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123968 ***