1904927 - Address bar states "Search with Google or enter address" even when address bar and search bar are separated

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1579458

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[odditude]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new tab.
2. Observe text in address bar.

Actual results:

Text in address bar states "Search with Google or enter address" even though I have the address and search bar split and keyword.enabled set to false. Entering dummy text into the address bar correctly treats it the text as a malformed URL.

Expected results:

Text in address bar should state "Enter address" as it did in v127.0.1 and prior if the address and search bar are split and keyword.enabled set to false.

Comment 1

[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 2

[Monica Chiorean]

On Win11x64 using Firefox 126.0/127.0/128.0b8 they all display the same string in address bar if keyword.enabled is set to false.
Odditude, can you please attach a screenshot with the exact field that you consider as incorrect? Thank you.

Comment 3

[odditude]

Attachment: Screenshot from submitter of issue

Screenshot showing text in inappropriate situation

Comment 4

[odditude]

Requested screenshot attached.

I consider this a bug because under this configuration, if a user entered a search term as prompted, they will reach the "Hmm. That address doesn’t look right" error page. The prompt should NOT include text to "search {searchengine}" in this configuration.

I can't edit the bug description, but I've confirmed on my laptop that the same behavior exists back to at least 127.0, so it's reasonable to assume it's existed longer and I simply didn't notice it before.