Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: Fedora RPMs OS: Linux Google is installed as standard search. When I now input two or more words in the address field, like "whatever here", google search comes up with searching after sites with the words "whatever here", as it should be. But when I enter only one word, like "whatever", it jumps to "http://whatever" - without any searching. This is complete garbage because most times I just want to search. I tried it with different search machines, but it happens all the time. I tried with a different user - the same happens. Any suggestion?
Type gg:whatever.
Changing Summary to reflect the wish. I must say I really, really hate this feature in that other browser.
Sure, gg:whatever works - but it should work without the 'gg:', too! At least, it did some weeks ago when I mad a new setup of the system. And, what do you mean with 'that other browser'? I am sorry, but I do not understand you.
That browser from Redmond that does a search on msn.net when it can't find the website. That's *annoying*.
I do not care about this browser or his behaviour - I want only my standard search of the konqueror back (!). Therefore I do not understand why you changed my bug to a wish, because some time ago it worked in the way I described, and for other people it works too - but not for me. To be clear: I want my browser to jump to google when I enter a word without domain (dots) when I activated the standard search - that should be the way it goes. But when konqueror then jump to http://whatever, it is a misbehaviour, a bug!
I'll take your word for it that it is a regression. This is a feature I've never used, so I didn't know.
Use the searchbar plugin if you don't want to prefix the searchprovider+colon?
Yes, that is a workaround I am aware of. And sure, that would be good enough - but the other hting is a bug, and I thought a bug should be solved? As far as I see at least one other person does have the same configuration but not this bug, so maybe I am the only one and it is not reproducable on other machines (it is reproducable here for other users). But, to be clear: the behaviour at my machine is a bug: when I input two words (without any prefix; You have the possibility to configure a standard search machine to get rid of the annoying prefix!), konqueror will give these two words to the search machine. When I input just one word, konqueror should give this one word to the search machine (as long as the word is not like 'domainname.domain'), but it doesn't. I tries to use single words without any dots as a address and of course fails! That was not so in former times, and so at least from my point of view it is a bug. Still not clear enough?
one little problem: single words without dots are perfectly useful addresses (on a LAN), and AFAIK the searching happens before the address is queried
Hm, you are right. But than you can only start the standard search if the name resolution fails.
I do not know why, but on a fresh installed linux system I have the expected behaviour back, with KDE 3.4.2 and KDE 3.5beta2. Looks like it was a error in a special konfiguration of my system. So I mark it as resolved.