307920 - Firefox 1.5 Beta - blank search window no longer goes to search site

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Dave Bartow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Just upgraded from Firefox 1.0.x to Beta 1.5.  Using the Search button extension
or just clicking on the search field and then pressing enter USED to take you to
the search site selected, even if the search field was blank.  (This is pretty
handy for just going to google or amazon or ebay.  For example, with Google as
the selected engine, clicking "Search" used to take you to the Google site, and
then you could click on "News").  Now something MUST be keyed in the field
before the click on the "Search" button, or the Enter key have an action.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the search field (make sure it is blank to begin with)
2. Press Enter or click on the Search button if using the extension
3. You don't go anywhere

Actual Results:  
No action takes place

Expected Results:  
You should go to the search site selected, even if you typed nothing.

Comment 1

[Niels Madsen]

This is not happening for me, it reacts the same way as before on Firefox 1.5
Beta1. In my opinion the search mechanism should stay this way.
Could you supply more info as to when this is happening?

Comment 2

[Dave Bartow]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is not happening for me, it reacts the same way as before on Firefox 1.5
> Beta1. In my opinion the search mechanism should stay this way.
> Could you supply more info as to when this is happening?

Hmmm... Interesting.  This happens always from the search window.  There is no
real "when" condition.  Do you have the "Search Button" extension applied,and
also, is your search field empty?  (Apparently there is a bug where it does not
clear properly.)

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050909 Firefox/1.6a1
ID:2005090916

This works for me. Leaving the input blank and pressing enter goes to the URL of
the search engine. Also, Bugzilla is not the place to report problems with other
extensions. Feel free to reopen this if you can reproduce in a clean profile
with no extensions installed.

Comment 4

[Dave Bartow]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050909 Firefox/1.6a1
> ID:2005090916
> This works for me. Leaving the input blank and pressing enter goes to the URL 
of
> the search engine. Also, Bugzilla is not the place to report problems with 
other
> extensions. Feel free to reopen this if you can reproduce in a clean profile
> with no extensions installed.

After some trial and error and uninstalling, this problem is directly related 
to the search button extension.  Sorry for filing this one here.  But thanks 
for the feedback and help.