480727 - Search keywords do not work sometimes.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 359809

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Johannes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

You can create search keywords to speed up searching websites. For example, you can create a search keyword for google and name it "g". However, sometimes, this does not work. If I type 'g "this is my keyword"', Firefox will not search for "this is my keyword" on google, but it will rather try to connect to http://www.g "this is my keyword".net/ -- which will forward to a google search for this term, as it's obviously not a valid URL. I noted that this especially happens with search terms that are written in uppercase or that have quotation marks. The strange thing is that it works if you type in the same keyword again.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a search keyword for any website
2. Try many search terms, especially terms that are entirelly written in uppercase. 
Actual Results:  
Redirects to http://www.<search keyword> <search term>.net/

Expected Results:  
Should do a search for <search term>

Comment 1

[Johannes]

Also, "+" character is treated as a space char, so you can't use a shortcut like "g c++ tutorials"

Comment 2

[Bernhard Häussner]

Maybe your Keyword Bookmark refers to http://google.com/search?q=%S (with capital S) instead of http://google.com/search?q=%s ? Because this will thread the input keywords differently (not encoded)

Comment 3

[Johannes]

It is set to http://www.google.de/search?q=%s .