667863 - exclude terms results from awesome bar using minus (-)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 466307

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Tommy XP]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

1. went to website
engadget - sony galleries 1
engadget - sony galleries 2
engadget - sony galleries 3
....
engadget - sony galleries 14
engadget - sony new laptop release

2. typed enga son -gall


Actual results:

showed links to galleries


Expected results:

should have narrowed results hiding sites containing "gall" in url or title

Comment 1

[Vlad [QA]]

Can you provide a link and be more specific with steps to reproduce.
I have entered the engadget site but the "-" doesn't appear in the url bar.

Comment 2

[Vlad [QA]]

Setting resolution to Resolved Invalid.

Comment 3

[Helge Hielscher]

Why is it Resolved Invalid?
The bug is that pages that are found that contain -term in the name or in the URL can not be excluded with typing -term.

Steps to reproduce:
1. go to http://www.engadget.com/photos/dell-streak-10-pro-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-fight/#4329754
2. try to list engadget pages that are not about samsung
Entering "engadget -samsung" in the URLbar does not work.

Comment 4

[bomfog]

From comment 1 it sounds like a misunderstanding of the OP's intent. It seems to me that enhancement bugs are rarely INVALID. WONTFIX, maybe.

If there's a bug, WONTFIXed or otherwise, for AND/OR/NOT -style search stuff in the awesome bar, I'd think this ought to be duped there. If there isn't, there ought to be, IMO. If I find one, I may get that done.

Anyway, I think the bug is about the lack of a way to exclude terms, rather than anything hyphen-specific. If I'm wrong, and there IS a way to exclude terms, I'd be pleased to hear it, and if the minus sign is crucial to the OP, ditto.

Comment 6

[Tommy XP]

(In reply to Helge Hielscher from comment #3)

this is exactly what i meant.