441333 - Search plugins take precedence over keyword searches

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Tom Link]

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

FF comes with a few search plugins. Besides search plugins users can define keywords for performing searches. Defining a new keyword search is easier for end users.

If a user has defined a keyword and a search plugin with the same plugin exists, the search plugin takes precendence over the keyword. IMHO this is wrong because the keyword search is the result of a decision made by the user, search plugins that are installed by default are not. Keyword searches should thus take precedence.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Define a keyword (eg yahoo)
2. In the adressbar, type yahoo

Actual Results:  
The page of the search plugin is opened

Expected Results:  
The page connected to the keyword should be opened

This is annoying because it happens every time after updating FF. I haven't witnessed this behaviour before ff3.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

The addition of new search plugins is extremely rare, and the likelihood of people using search keywords that don't match a new search plugin is even rarer.

After the search plugin is added, you could still type "yahoo 123" and the Yahoo search with '123' will be queried.