370067 - Quick searches do not escape characters such as "+"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 359809

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[David Benjamin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

The Quick Search functionality does not escape characters and relies on Firefox's automatic escaping. This fails for certain characters, such as +.

Seeing as the search toolbar properly escapes everything, perhaps a more permanent solution would be somehow to merge the two similar functionalities?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "google C++" (assuming existence of default quick search of google) into location bar.
2. Press enter.
Actual Results:  
Firefox does not escape the + and ends up searching for "C  "

Expected Results:  
Firefox escapes the + with a %2B and searches for "C++"

I have confirmed that this happens on Firefox 2.0.0.1 in custom build in Gentoo Linux, the Ubuntu Edgy build in the repositories, and with the official build on Windows XP.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070210 Minefield/3.0a3pre
I see this too. Although it is supposed to be fixed by Bug 316863.
Firefox goes to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=C++
which gives results for "C".

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Bug 316863 was about "I'm feeling lucky" searches from the URL bar that don't involve bookmark keywords ("quick searches").