494733 - Unexpected behaviors of the Search Bar...

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 395750

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Cor'e]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Changing the browser.search.openintab config to True does not work as expected.

I would expect that searches would open in new tabs.  

Another default behavior i would expect is that focus moves to the new tab after typing in a search at the search bar, this does not happen, i do not (yet) know the config to change this, but i would think it'd be the default behavior.

Yet another behavior i would expect of a Search would be that a new blank tab which has focus at the time of a search be utilized for the search, this appears to already be filed as Bug 344381 or Bug 320989 (?).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open about:config
2.set browser.search.openintab to TRUE
3.type a search in the Search Bar
Actual Results:  
If the typed query ends in an Enter keystroke:
- a new tab *is* opened.
- focus *remains* at the last focused tab.
- last focused web page is *not* moved into tab history.

If the typed query ends in a click on the Search icon (magnifying glass):
- a new tab is *not* opened.
- focus *remains* at the last focused tab.
- last focused web page *is* moved into tab history.

If the typed query ends in an Alt-Enter keystroke:
- a new tab is *not* opened.
- focus *remains* at the last focused tab.
- last focused web page *is* moved into tab history.


Expected Results:  
A new tab does not open when i type in a search into the search bar and click on the search magnifying glass icon or press Alt-Enter; however, it does open a new tab when i press Enter.  

Ctrl-k does not seem to change these behaviors.  (I cannot confirm the behaviors of middle-button on mouse as i do not have one).  Using User.js does not seem to change these behaviors.

WinXP Pro x32 SP3, FF 3010.  Rumors are that this also happens on *nix builds.

Annoyance, work-around is to press Enter after typing searches in Search Bar.

Comment 1

[Cor'e]

I see a reason to not move focus to the new search results tab, that being if i initiate the search from a webpage i'm currently continuing to view, then i would want to background  my searches.  

But i'd like to see a config variable to toggle this, separate from the global open-tabs-in-background option.  (I guess i just mixed a Bug and a NFR, sorry for doing that).

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

To focus the new tab with the search results, change browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to false. It controls bookmarks, history (even locationbar) and search. If this sounds illogical to you, I believe there is also a bug for this. For example Bug 349615, but there should be more bugs with different solutions, more prefs or less prefs. 

Duping to bug 395750.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #2)

> (even locationbar) 

I meant: locationbar history (the history in the dropdown).