294613 - Search in web from the context menu takes you to google, but won't search

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Mozilla Localizations :: es-ES / Spanish, defect)

Description

[Pedro Bezunartea López]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When selecting some text in any page and selecting "Buscar ... en la web"
("Search in web") it opens a new tab where it's supposed to show the results,
but it only shows google's home page.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select any text in any web page.
2. Right-click to show the context pop-up menu.
3. Select "Buscar ... en la web" where "..." is the selected text.

Actual Results:  
A new tab open with google's home page.

Expected Results:  
The new tab should show the results of the search for the selected text in google.

I checked the configuration (about:config), the browser.search.defaulturl was
set to some url like "http://nave.escomposlinux.org/..." instead of
"http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=" which is the default
value for the english version. Once you change this setting, it works fine again.

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050514 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Anders Conbere]

could this be an issue in the localized build?

Comment 3

[Gabriel Chadwick]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050517
Firefox/1.0+ and 1.0.4 .

Comment 4

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This could be localisation problem. Reporter could you please try reinstalling
firefox and using a new profile(http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile).
Tell us if it works.

Comment 5

[Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla]

I've found out a funny behaviour in firefox. You can reproduce what the reporter
says the very first time you use that feature after starting firefox (I've not
tried in mozilla suite, that theorically uses the same url), but if you just try
again, then it works. I've tried several times later and the behaviour is this
just mentioned.

Comment 6

[Pedro Bezunartea López]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This could be localisation problem. Reporter could you please try reinstalling
> firefox and using a new profile(http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile).
> Tell us if it works.

I just did as suggested and the problem is still there. This time I copied the 
value of browser.search.defaulturl which doesn't work:
http://nave.escomposlinux.org/enlaces/redirecciones.php?clave=FF.browser.search.defaulturl&arg=

Comment 7

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Hello Pedro. Can you try if you can reproduce this with Firefox 1.5 beta?

Comment 8

[Patricio M. Ros]

The problem is in localized build (Spanish build by NAVE). You have to change
browser.search.defaulturl to this url
http://www.google.es/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

If you want to change this property, you have to modify the file
chrome\es-ES.jar. Inside the jar, modify the file
locale\browser-region\region.properties.

It seems that NAVE redirect all our web search. And I don't like that, what
about privacy?

More information (in Spanish): http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/107206

Comment 9

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Hello Patricio.

We are aware of those complaints and now we are not going to use this technique
(although, you can beleive me or not, but the NAVE project was not storing/using
this data for anything, and there were efficiency and maintainability reasons
for this). BTW, I am the responsible of Firefox es-ES localization only *since*
version 1.5. I don't think we are going to change those "old" builds now, we are
facing towards the following version, which won't have redirections at all.

Perhaps you want to keep on discussing this in the NAVE mailing list:
http://www.elistas.net/lista/nave/.

We need now information for 1.5 version. If it works ok in this version, I will
close this bug.

Comment 10

[Pedro Bezunartea López]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Hello Pedro. Can you try if you can reproduce this with Firefox 1.5 beta?

Hi knocte,

I'm using firefox 1.0.6... from "About Firefox":
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720
Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

Same thing. Selecting 'Buscar "selected-text" en la web' from the context menu
takes you to google's home page.

Pedro.

Comment 11

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Pedro, as I asked before, try with Firefox 1.5 beta please.

Comment 12

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Finally I have tried it myself on Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and it works perfectly.

Closing as WFM.