193413 - Search terms followed by enter disallow subsequent search.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135363

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Eric Towers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216

This is not bug #90337 and is unrelated to that bug.
This is neither bugs #53171 nor #163436.  However both seem semantically close
in the problem domain.

Observed in Mozillas 1.2.1, 1.1.0, and 1.0.2 (on equivalent hardware and OS).

Internet keywords is disabled.
Autocomplete typed URLs is enabled.  Show list and show search engine are the
only enabled advanced autocomplete options.

Steps:
1) Type search terms, e.g. "foo bar baz", into URL bar.
2) Hit <return> or <enter>.
3) Dismiss invalid URL alert.
4) Highlight "URL" and press <down-arrow> until 
    Search Google for "foo bar baz"
   is highlighted and press <return> or <enter>.
5) Dismiss invalid URL alert.
One may repeat steps 4 and 5 until bored.

Workaround 1:
4) Highlight "URL".  Type <End> <spacebar> and then press <down-arrow> until 
    Search Google for "foo bar baz"
   is highlighted and press <return> or <enter>.
5) Enjoy the set of results returned by the search engine.

Workaround 2:
4) Highlight "URL".  Type <End> <down-arrow> (only once).
5) Use the mouse to select 
    Search Google for "foo bar baz"
6) Enjoy the set of results returned by the search engine.


Redescription in higher level primitives:
<Enter>ing a set of search terms seems to mark the contents of the URL bar as "a
URL", disallowing the *keyboard* selection of searching a search engine for the
terms.
    Modifying the set of search terms (even vacuously) permits the keyboard
selection of searching via a search engine.
    Not modifying the search terms permits search engine selection by mouse, but
not by keyboard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Duplicated from Details section:
1) Type search terms, e.g. "foo bar baz", into URL bar.
2) Hit <return> or <enter>.
3) Dismiss invalid URL alert.
4) Highlight "URL" and press <down-arrow> until 
    Search Google for "foo bar baz"
   is highlighted and press <return> or <enter>.

Actual Results:  
Duplicated from Details section:
5) Dismiss invalid URL alert.



Expected Results:  
Duplicated from Details section:
5) Enjoy the set of results returned by the search engine.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135363 ***