906299 - keyword.url not used as default search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 873734

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Pete]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

took update v23.0.1 from 22
typed search words into address bar


Actual results:

got default search engine (google) as google.fr (french ip) default parameters


Expected results:

keyword.url search as google.co.uk with keyword.url parameters

Comment 1

[Richard Neill]

This appears to be a deliberate misfeature.
To un-break it, try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl-hack/

Seriously though, this is a really annoying choice. The correct behaviour (which Fx has had for years) is this:

1. Typing a string containing no spaces into the location bar goes to that URL.

2. Typing a string containing spaces into the location bar, searches for that string (using keyword.URL; I have google)

3. Typing a string into the search bar searches the custom engine for that string; I usually have Wikipedia.


Having #2 and #3 do the same thing may be consistent, but it's really unhelpful, as we need to do more clicking to achieve the same result.