1854584 - Result of arithmetic expression leads you to search page containing "="

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Marc Seibert (:mseibert)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0
Expected:

1. Enter "5+5" in the addressbar.
2. Click on the result "= 10".
3. Get redirected to search engine with either full "artihmetic expression e.g. 5+5" or result "10" (without '=').

Actual:

You get redirected to the search engine with the result and the '=' e.g. "= 10".

Recommendation:

I think for the customer/user it would be best to redirect to the search result containing the original query. Search providers like Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo even provide a calculator UI. Usually searching for a result of a mathematical expression doesn't lead to anything useful.

Comment 1

[Marc Seibert (:mseibert)]

Turns out the result is not from our UrlbarProviderCalculator.sys.mjs but rather a Search Engine result. Would be nice to have a calculator result that redirects to the search engine when clicked on.

Comment 2

[Stephanie Cunnane [:scunnane]]

We should be detecting the special case of a remote search suggestion starting with "=". We looked at what Chrome is doing, which seems like a reasonable approach.