290691 - Open in new tab/window doesn't work with keyword: URL with spaces

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[avalon73]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Both of the following URLs perform the requested search:

keyword:firefox plugins
keyword:firefox%20plugins

The problem is that, when the Google results page comes up with the first one,
trying to open a result link in a new tab or window (using either the
right-click menu or ctrl+click on the link) doesn't work.  With the latter, it
works as expected.

If I don't put the keyword: in front of the search terms myself, Firefox will do
the automatic escaping of the spaces itself, but that doesn't work if the search
terms include a hostname, apparently.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR;
rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050416 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[avalon73]

If it makes any difference, 1.0.3 on this machine was an upgrade from 1.0.2,
rather than a clean install.  1.0.2 wasn't uninstalled before the upgrade began.

Comment 3

[Gabriel Chadwick]

Try this with a new profile and if it still does not works try to find how to
repeat the bug.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It doesn't work in FF1.0.3, but it does in recent trunk builds. It was therefore
fixed since Firefox 1.0 was released.