GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 377012
Addressbar shouldn't delete user input on "This URL is not valid"-Error
Last modified: 2010-01-15 21:38:47 UTC
Until Epiphany 2.14 you could just type in a term and press Enter and if the term wouldn't be a URL it would handled as "keyword:$TERM". Since 2.16 a error pops Up "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded." and the content of the addressbar will be reset to former content. I know that this new behaviour is a "Feature", but the term should be deleted from the addressbar. An example: I search for "A great Epiphany plugin for bla foo 74237" and press automatically Enter, because I am used to it since years, Now this complicated term is deleted and I must start from the beginning and sometimes (really) pressing automatically Enter again instead of selecting a search from the dropdown list. Other information: I guess it's easy to fix and would be really nice if you could change this behavior within the next two years...
I completely agree. The best thing would be to allow searching either by just typing in the search string, or by prefixing it with a custom search keyword (like "g" for google, "y" for yahoo). If that is impossisble, the next best would be to avoid clearing the URL bar. This is the only thing I actually hate about epiphany. At least a few times a week, I curse out loud because my attempted search fails and disappears.
Now the problem is also: If the search string contains a dot "." it is always taken as a domain name and if this is not found you get an error.
*** Bug 443957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The google query works as expected now, but what we do now is clear the URL on load-error, which is also wrong IMHO.
(In reply to comment #4) > The google query works as expected now, but what we do now is clear the URL on > load-error, which is also wrong IMHO. That is a bug in the status reporting, IMO. I have a WIP patch I plan to post early next year ;D
Pushed as bac714eab6253cf088761501117937e9b48bcea9. Needs webkit from trunk.