303153 - right-click search collapses newlines to nothing, joining words and invalidating search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270297

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The right-click context menu always has a "Search for ..." option when text is
selected.  However, if that text spans multiple lines (due to a markup break,
not a break due to browser line-wrapping), the line break is removed.  The
resulting search is invalid because two words are run together.  Whitespace due
to page markup should be collapsed to a single space for the search.

Take, for instance, an address rendered in code like this:
<p>123 Main St</p>
<p>City, State 10001</p>

With Google now returning links to maps when searching for addresses, it is
handy just to be able to select the address, right-click, and search.  However,
right now Firefox searches for "123 Main StCity, State 10001".  Collapsing the
paragraph break to a single space would yield a much more useful search for "123
Main St City, State 10001".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Given a page containing this code or something like it:
<p>123 Main St</p>
<p>City, State 10001</p>

Select all the text, right-click, and "Search for ..."
Actual Results:  
Firefox searches for "123 Main StCity, State 10001"

Expected Results:  
Firefox searches for "123 Main St City, State 10001"

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270297 ***