293764 - dot (period) in toolbar keyword search confuses engine

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261608

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

If I use the toolbar search for a keyword containing a dot, such as "firefox
1.0.3" - the search mechanism treats it like a url containing a space, and
returns the error "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see above
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
search for "firefox 1.0.3"

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050514
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050610
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061007

WFM

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

reopening just to mark as duplicate of bug 261608.

Comment 4

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261608 ***