441201 - Using bookmark keyword in the location bar does not correctly URL escape the plus ("+") character

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 359809

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Bjarke Walling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; da; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; da; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0

I have Google search as a bookmark keyword (it is "g"). If I enter "g c++" in the location bar, to search for something related to C++, I just get search results on "C". This is because the value is inserted directly in the URL (like "http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=c++&meta="). The plus ("+") characters are interpreted as spaces in the query string of the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/
2. Right click on the search field and choose "Add a keyword to this search..."
3. Enter "Google" in the Name field and "google" in the Keyword field. Click Add.
4. Go to the location bar and enter "google c++". Press ENTER.
Actual Results:  
The search field on the resulting Google page contains "c  " (the character "c" and two spaces). Also the plus ("+") character is not escaped in the query string of the URL. The URL is like this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=&=&q=c++

Also see that Google gives you the speed of light as a result, not something related to C++ programming.

Expected Results:  
A Google search result page on "C++". The URL should be like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=&=&q=c%2B%2B

If you try to enter "google c%2B%2B" as you expect it doesn't escape the value as all, you'll notice that is actually escapes the percent signs ("%"). As far as I can tell it is only the plus ("+") character that is not properly encoded.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

This works correctly for me on Windows. I believe I've seen this bug before.

Comment 2

[Uri Bernstein]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906
> Firefox/3.0
> 
> This works correctly for me on Windows. I believe I've seen this bug before.
> 

Doesn't work for me correctly on Mac. And you probably have seen this before :-)

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Yeah, in my default profile it goes to http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=c%2B%2B&meta= (probably caused by some forgotten construction).