550458 - Firefox should use keyword search for strings enclosed in quotation marks

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[eyal gruss]

keyword.url search is not activated for strings that look like domain names.
however i suggest that if the string is enclosed in quotation marks it would override the dns lookup and do the search

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Not with the default Browse By Name search but if I set keyword.URL to a normal google search like http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q= and type "cnn" it does a google search for CNN.

Comment 2

[eyal gruss]

the problem is with strings containing . or :
typing: ff3.7
resolves to a dns lookup
i suggest that with quotes: "ff3.7"
would instead do the keyword search

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Like so, perhaps?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9ecde94d946c