420165 - Search for multiple instances/appearances of a string/word. (overlapping strings in the query)

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); eo; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022804 Minefield/3.0b4pre

If one enters “bug bug bug” into the location bar, they probably mean it.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have the Bugzilla@Mozilla main page, search page(s), bug pages, http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days etc in places.
2. Enter “bug” in the location bar. Wait for the dropdown.
3. Append “ bug” to that. Wait for the drop down to update.
4. Repeat step 3 any number of times.

Actual results:
Steps 3 and 4 do not affect the order or the set of results. “bug” and “bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug” are identical.


Expected results:
3. The results are not affected, because all of the pages contain the word “bug” both in their URL and title, so at least twice.
4. Either the list is narrowed down to the places that contain the word “bug” at least as many times as the location bar does, or such results appear higher in the list.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

What would you expect for "bug ug g" ?

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to comment #1)
Any place where there are:
1. At least one instance of “bug”.
2. At least one instance of “ug” outside of that instance of “bug”.
3. At least one instance of “g” outside of those two instances.

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This will not block the final release of Firefox 3.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.