424170 - AwesomeBar Should Go To First Search Result when Hitting Enter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 410837

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Chris Forbes [:chrisjf]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

When I type a word in the Location Bar/AwesomeBar and then hit enter, Firefox should go to the first result of the AwesomeBar instead of doing a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search for that word.

I use the AwesomeBar now way more than I use Google I'm Feeling Lucky search.(Thank you Firefox 3 betas!) If I want to Google search something I'll just use the Google Search box to the right of the Location Bar.

I find that pressing the down-arrow-key and then the enter key is an extra unnecessary step. The default behaviour of the Location Bar/AwesomeBar should be to just go to the first result when I hit enter. Get rid of the down-arrow-key step.

Note: Safari does this already. If you start typing "bug" in Safari and then hit enter, Safari will go to the first suggested result of the Location Bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type your favourite word into the AwesomeBar/Location Bar i.e. bug
2. See the list of logical suggested sites from your Bookmarks and History.
3. Hit the Enter key and be magically transported to a random website because of a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search. i.e. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470705/
Actual Results:  
Firefox does a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should take me to the first result on the list (suggested by the AwesomeBar) when I hit Enter. Instead, I have to press the down-arrow-key and then hit enter.

Comment 1

[Chris Forbes [:chrisjf]]

Attachment: Visual Example of the Problem

This is just a visual example of the problem.

Comment 3

[bomfog]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186136 ***
> 

commented there