212917 - Domain Guessing: perform search after failure

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Mikko Häkkinen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Because I often forget or make a mistake in pressing the down arrow key when
trying to select "Search ** for **" leading to an irritating error message I got
an idea about how to improve the usability of the search system.

What the browser actually does in the situation described above is - or I guess
-  that it first tries the domain name guessing. Because the "proposed url"
contains only a random array of search terms the domain name guessing results a
failure and such web site can not be located.

Actually I don't do a heck with such an error message. Therefore I suggest that
instead of throwing a pointless error message the browser should make a search
using the preferred search engine - or - it could do something like Google's
"I'm feeling lucky".

Briefly...
If the user written url can't be found even after using the domain guessing (if
selected) the browser should perform search or "I'm feeling lucky" kind of search.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write search terms in the URL field
2. Go
3. See an error message instead of search

Actual Results:  
I got an error message.

Expected Results:  
It should make a search if option selected.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has been suggested (and rejected, iirc) before.

Comment 2

[Charles Fenwick]

As mentioned in one of the dupe bug comments, you could enable Internet 
Keywords to do what you want.  See: 
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html



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

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN:
Domain Guessing is DOCSHELL

Comment 4

[benc]

You need to turn off domain guessing (because you don't like it), and turn on
Internet Keywords (because that is what you are saying you want).

Comment 5

[benc]

let me know if this doesn't work. If it does, please VERIFY you bug.