315284 - MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS_ALLOWED=100 is not enough

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Mycroft Project (CC)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/components/search/src/nsInternetSearchService.cpp#99
sets #define MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS_ALLOWED  100
this is too low for many sites. I appreciate there were reasons for limiting the number of results returned but there is no warning - "results cropped" or something and AFAIK no way to adjust this (simply) Can I suggest 250 or 500 would be more suitable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install rpmfind plugin from mycroft
2. Search for Apache
3. Note sidebar results limited to 100 but approx. 200 results on webpage

Actual Results:  
no more than 100 results

Expected Results:  
however many results are given or at least a warning.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

-> Core, Firefox doesn't <interpret> except through extensions.