216048 - Google calculator does not always work

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Julian Kurz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

You can enter an expression in google that is evaluated by the built-in
calculator function
(http://www.google.com/intl/de/help/features.html#calculator). This of course
also works with the Mozilla search button. But + is not encoded to %2B so it is
seen as a space by google and an expression with a + is not evaluated by google.
This may also be a problem with other characters not encoded properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the search sidebar.
2. select "using Google"
3. enter 3+4
4. press search
Actual Results:  
Google searches for "3 4"

Expected Results:  
Google should behave as if you entered 3+4 directly on google.com

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

Julian:
this works for me with Mozilla 1.7b (not sure if Mozilla changed its code or
google, but this is WORKSFORME, right?).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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