Bug#499348: /usr/bin/iceape: browser searches for a URL instead of jumping to it

[Mark Hobley]

Package: iceape-browser
Version: 1.1.11-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/iceape


The browser exhibits really annoying behaviour of searching for a URL 
(in google), rather than jumping to the URL.

If a URL is typed in the address bar, the browser should always jump to 
the address.

For example, lets visit:

http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

Ok, we scroll down the page to:

Perl 1.000 is unleashed upon the world. 

Rightclick the link for Perl 1.000 and "open link in new window"

The file "perl-1.0.tar.gz" is of type application/x-tar and Iceape does 
not know how to handle this file type.

Button: Cancel

The address bar now contains:

http://history.perl.org/src/perl-1.0.tar.gz

Hightlight and cut "perl-1.0.tar.gz", so that address bar now contains:

http://history.perl.org/src/

Press Enter to visit the URL.

The browser jumps to:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.perl.org%2Fsrc%2F&b%2F&btnG=Google+Search&meta=


It should have gone to:

http://history.perl.org/src/

Repeat this three times. Each time the browser jumps to:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.perl.org%2Fsrc%2F&b%2F&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

instead of to the address in the address bar.

Now close down the browser, and go to a blank page.

Now type the following in the address bar:

http://history.perl.org/src/

Press enter, the browser goes to the address typed. This shows that the 
problem is with the browser and not the website:

If URL addresses are pasted into the address bar, the browser submits 
the pasted URL to Google, instead of jumping to the address.


Mark.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceape-browser depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-9         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2-0      1.2.6-1           spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.7.1-3           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.0-5          Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-2          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-9           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages iceape-browser recommends:
pn  iceape-gnome-support          <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages iceape-browser suggests:
pn  iceape-dom-inspector  <none>             (no description available)
pn  iceape-mailnews       <none>             (no description available)
pn  latex-xft-fonts       <none>             (no description available)
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries

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