361100 - Using the "google" keyword to search for a string, firefox sends "google" as part of the string

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Using the "google" keyword to search for a string, firefox sends "google" as part of the string eg (i enter "google foo bar" then when i get to the results from google i get results for "google foo bar" insted of just "foo bar".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type in to the address bar "google anything"
2.Press return
3.Read the query sent to google

Actual Results:  
The query sent to google was with "google" appended to the beginning of the string

Expected Results:  
For the query sent to google to not include "google" at the beginning of the string

Windows XP Home Edition SP2, 512MB Ram, 1.8 Ghrz AMD Mobile Sempron, Acer Aspire 3003wmli

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Went to www.google.com, right clicked in the input field, chose "Add a keyword for this search" and gave it the keyword google.
Then I typed in the location bar google internet and I got a page with results for the word internet.
So I think the bookmark with the keyword google is simply not yet present amongst your bookmarks.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, I think you're not using a "google" keyword at all. By default, Firefox will send everything in the location bar that doesn't look like an URL, and that isn't a keyword either, to Google, for a "I'm feeling lucky" search. That's why you end up at the google search-page.

If you want to install such a keyword, you can use the instructions from Ria.