319169 - [regression] Keyword substitution with %s doesn't escape characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 316863

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brad Town]

You can't use strings like "c++" or "s&p 500" with keyword substitution in most
circumstances because Mozilla doesn't convert characters to their hex
counterparts (e.g., '+' should become %2B, '&' should become %26, etc.).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Steps to recreate:
. Create a bookmark with a keyword for Google (name "Google Search", location
"http://www.google.com/search?q=%s", keyword "g")
. Use it to search for "c++": "g c++".  Note that it left the '+'s as entered
and they are ignored.

Comment 1

[Brad Town]

The original defect for this was bug 123006.

The last build of Firefox I used that didn't have this problem was release 1.0.7.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051204 Firefox/1.5

WFM in trunk and branch builds. Can't reproduce the problem. Have you tried it with a new profile?
See Bug 316863.

Comment 3

[Brad Town]

A new profile does not fix the problem.  Maybe there's something else, a plugin or extension, affecting it -- I'll try to narrow it down.

I'll close this one in favor of bug 316863.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316863 ***