407377 - location bar search performs normal Google search.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007120604 Minefield/3.0b2pre

STR:
1) ensure about:config > keyword.enabled is true
2) Type a search term in the location bar "test potatos", enter

test results:
a normal "Web" Google results page is displayed

expected results:
the search is put through Googles "I'm feeling lucky"

keyword.URL = http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
keyword.enabled = true

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is working correctly on today's Linux build.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Firefox uses "Browse by name" (gfns=1), which means that Google decides for each query whether it's extremely likely that you want the first result, and either shows you a list of results or redirects you to the first result accordingly.

Try the queries "ford" and "articles for deletion" -- Google should redirect you for those queries.

See http://www.squarefree.com/2004/09/09/googles-browse-by-name-in-firefox/ and bug 323801 and bug 258838.

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

ah, ok