GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 360077
Annoying message "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"
Last modified: 2006-10-06 05:31:11 UTC
Sometimes, when I want to search the Internet, I put keywords onto the URL bar, then, normally a popup menu appears to let me select which searching engine I want to use to do my search, but sometimes, I forget to select one and I press directly enter. In the old versions of epiphany, the search was done using Google by default, but on newer versions, a message appears : "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded" And, the problem is after that, the location bar is cleaned, so I have to reenter my keywords ... Step to reproduce: 1. open epiphany 2. Ctrl-L to have focus on location bar 3. type "some keywords to search" 4. don't select a search engine and press directly enter 5. a popup appears 6. no more keywords on location bar Expected result: either the keywords be kept in the location bar or a popup asking me whuich search engine I want to use.
Thanks for reporting this bug. This is a known problem that is already being fixed, we are all equally annoyed by this. As a quick fix, try pressing Esc or switching to another tab and then back to recover what you typed in the location bar. Thanks for using Epiphany. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 350053 ***