Bug#426401: Search bar behavior reverted to firefox one

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 19:03 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: 
> > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 03:56:50PM +0200, Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina at tiscali.it> wrote:
> > > The epiphany search bar behavior is now the one which is the default in 
> > > firefox, the "I'm feeling lucky" one, with the additional complication 
> > > of not accepting searches with spaces.
> > 
> > It doesn't, here.
> 
> Searching directly from the URL bar does seem to be broken with
> 1.8.1.4-1. 
> 
> It used to be possible to enter a search string and press simply press
> enter. Now instead of doing a Google search, Epiphany tries to go to
> search string + .com, which of course doesn't work if there's a space in
> the string.

Strange, I don't remember such behaviour, and am pretty sure i only got
google searches when typing something and then choosing the "Google"
entry in the drop list that shows up.

Mike