482593 - Keyword searches pass plus symbol (+) to URL literally

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 359809

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Evan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6

Doing a keyword search for something that involves a plus sign results in the + symbol being copied directly to the URL, which typically causes it to be interpreted as a space in the search term, which is almost certainly what the user doesn't want.

Instead, + symbols should be translated to %2B in the URL so they are properly encoded. (This is Opera's feature with regards to this feature.)

I do a lot of searches for C++ stuff, use Google as my main calculator, and almost always search from the location bar instead of the search bar (I think it's better for mouse-less navigation to do it that way), so this is a very common annoyance for me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Google.com, create a keyword search for it (say with keyword 'g').
2. Type "g c++" in the location bar
3. Hit enter
Actual Results:  
The resulting search page is for the query "c"

Expected Results:  
Given a resulting search page for the query "c++"