197918 - Internet Keywords: "search" instead of "The URL is not valid and can not be loaded" error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[marni894]

Instead of opening the alert "The URL is not valid and can not be loaded" the
text in the URL should (at least as an option) be sent as search string to the
default search engine.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

What do you get if you enable
Edit\preferences\Navigator\Msart Browsing\[x]Internet Keywords ?

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

To be sendt of to a search engine each time i make a typo would be extremely
annoying. Please resolve as WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

I think there's an important distinction to be made here between "invalid" and
"illegal".

You can easily be meaning to type "mozilla.org" and type "moilla.org" instead. 
That would be invalid, and should still result in the error message, but it's
not illegal - it has all of the permitted characteristics of a URL and it's only
coincidental that there's no such site.

On the other hand, if you type "Give me a recipe for apple pie." into the URL
bar, there's no way that it could be confused with a typo for a URL - it's
completely illegal.  I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be redirected to
a search engine.

BTW: If I enable Internet Keywords and type "Give me a recipe for apple pie." I
get the typical error message as reported in comment 0.  (Actually, I currently
get an "XML Parsing Error", but that's a different bug that's just been fixed.)

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

in that case: dup of bug 58867

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58867 ***

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

Good catch.

Comment 6

[benc]

REOPEN.

This is the earliest instance of a bug trend I've been looking for for some time.

Since Internet Keywords was set off by default, I've expected some users to type
in the URL bar, and expect something to happen (often Internet Kewyords is
assumed to point to <or BE> a search feature).

In the past, Internet Keywords would fire automatically (like in FireFox), but
now, it gives an error.

You need to turn on the feature in the prefs. (Smart Browsing | Internet Keywords).

See: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html

Comment 7

[benc]

*** Bug 214859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[benc]

*** Bug 218288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[benc]

*** Bug 218721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[benc]

Found the earlier dupes... they were lost in "search" bug because of bug 53171.

Comment 11

[benc]

*** Bug 174203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[benc]

*** Bug 167974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[benc]

*** Bug 141670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Prognathous]

XP -> All

Benc, how many more dupes would it take to make a decision so that the outcome
of Bug 100412 can be mended? Does the fact that this bug is REOPENED means
there's a green light to do it?

Prog.

Comment 15

[benc]

I don't know. The number of duplicates is pretty low given the number of users
over time. This only affects new users of new profiles. Also, for pure
ease-of-use/power, the product focus is on FireFox.

The general direction is to keep turnning off unnecessary features by default
and let users decide who or what they will hookup. "What's related" was removed
from the default tab list for similar reasons. Domain guessing is about to be
turned off by default as well.

There are two reasons for this:
1- The features are buggy (have you read all the bugs on IK before asking for it
to be on by default?)
2- The features block testing of lower-level code, that should be made un-buggy
first, like DNS and URL bar.

Search has other problems that need to be fixed first.

Comment 16

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 17

[:Hb]

Internet Keywords are gone from Seamonkey. Current solutions works.