637320 - Search in address bar ignores default search engine

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 637675

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Charles Bedon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

I currently have set DuckDuckGo as default search engine (I've also tested with Bing getting same results) and they work fine if I search from the search box, but if I type an expression in the address bar (I'm somehow used to Chrome) it always use Google as search engine ignoring the previous setting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a default search engine other than Google
2. Type in the address bar an expression to be searched (say, 'hello')
Actual Results:  
It will search in Google

Expected Results:  
It should use the search engine set in the first step

Comment 1

[George Carstoiu]

Charles, you can change the default search engine by doing the following:
1. Open about:config
2. Press I'll be careful, I'll promise
3. In the filter bar enter browser.search.defaultenginename
4. Change value to what you are interested in: DuckDuckGo in your case

Note:
1. Desired search engine has to be added to the list of search engines
2. Value added in about:config is key sensitive

Hope this helps.

Comment 2

[Charles Bedon]

The actual value is "Duck Duck Go" (with spaces between words). Thanks George, the workaround works nicely.