310771 - Enable keyword.enable aka. I'm felling lucky search aka. Browse by name

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Location Bar & Autocomplete, enhancement)

Description

[Yuan Qi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

This is a very useful feature and it is already implemented. All that needs to
be done is to enable the hidden setting. It might be nice to display the address
drop down list with the entry "Go to %Keyword%" Camino seemed to be okay when
this hidden setting is enabled but further testing might be necessary.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Since we have a Google search bar, I'm recommending WONTFIX for this bug. Users
can turn this on on their own.

Comment 2

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Yeah, it's very easy to enable this via about:config. I can't see any reason to
make it the default.

Comment 3

[Yuan Qi]

It's different than Google Search. If you have this enabled and type "Camino",
then it will automatically send you to www.caminobrowser.com without going
through the search results at all! That's why it's called "Search by Name". A
lot of people are familiar with this feature either from Firefox or Google Toolbar.

Comment 4

[Yuan Qi]

Sorry, I meant "Browse by Name"

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I still don't see this "feature" as beneficial and actually see it as confusing
to users. This is going back to the days with IE when you search from the
location bar (this just takes it a step further). Since we have a search bar and
smart keywords, I just don't see thi as needed.

Mike, Simon, any comments?

Comment 6

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

I think the main point I'd like to make is that it takes about 15 seconds to
turn this on yourself. Again, I see no need for it to be default behavior.

Comment 7

[Yuan Qi]

How is this the same as the Google Search field on the sidebar?!

Like I said before, this is more or less a replacement of ".com" ".net"
autocompletion. Instead of trying all the combinations and end up in fraudulent
sites, we can just send a "I'm Feeling Lucky" query to google to redirect the
user to the right website. For example, the user can now type camino, instead of
camino browser.org to get to the the right website. The user will also avoid
fraudulent sites, such as mozillazine.com (not the .org website!) when they type
in mozillazine.

Also, although this setting only takes 15 seconds to enable, furthering testing
might be necessary before we rule that the feature is stable enough for everyday
use.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

The feature also leads to unexpected behavior for users and its own share of
wrong sites (I have it turned off in Fx for that very reason).  

If someone wants this behavior, it's very easy for the person to turn it on (and
if there are stability problems, that's a serious Core issue), as Wevah has
mentioned twice, but it brings little benefit (but a whole new category of
unexpected behavior) for most users over the default behavior we currently have.

Comment 9

[Yuan Qi]

I am convinced now, so I guess this will be a WONTFIX.

Comment 10

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

*** Bug 314788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

*** Bug 338450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

*** Bug 348594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***