441225 - Using a Quick Search results in parameters initially appearing URL encoded

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Matthew]

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

The Firefox 3 location bar apparently supports displaying URL encoded characters, such as %20 as a ' ' (space), now. Which is great.

But, if I type the keyword for a Quick Search Bookmark I have defined and some text including spaces, first it places that text into the URL defined in the bookmark, URL encoding the spaces. A split second later, all the %20s in the URL are correctly replaced with ' 's, but what if that conversion after the fact wasn't necessary - what if the Quick Search Bookmark produced an un-URL encoded string to begin with.

Note: sorry if this should be categorized under the "Bookmarks" component, I wasn't sure.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Quick Search Bookmark if you don't already have one. For example, one with a location of "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" and a keyword of "g".
2. In the location bar, type "g Mozilla Firefox", continuing with this example.
3. Press enter
Actual Results:  
With this example, the contents of the location bar are replaced with "http://www.google.com/search?q=Mozilla%20Firefox", then a split second later are correctly replaced with "http://www.google.com/search?q=Mozilla Firefox".

Expected Results:  
The contents of the location bar should be replaced with "http://www.google.com/search?q=Mozilla Firefox" immediately, not requiring the intermediate step.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Bulk closing all UNCONFIRMED bugs dealing with places that haven't had any bug activity in over 120 days, have no votes, and are not enhancement requests.

If you are still experiencing this issue in Firefox 3.0 or later, please re-open the bug with steps to reproduce (if they were not part of the original comment).