[23525] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.15: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Aug 8 18:20:51 2003
Message-Id: <200308082220.h78MKnoF002225@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:20:49 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
I reported last Saturday:
> If I type some random words into the location bar, I get a drop down, as
> expected that offers 'Search for "foo, bar"' If I then hit <tab><enter>
> it gets highlighted, but nothing happens; clicking doesn't help, either.
>
> Also, if I start to type a known URL, I don't get any suggestions for
> what to complete it to (just the 'search for' option).
I updated red-herring to 9.2.15 from 9.2.14 (no mozilla change) and was
then able to reproduce the problem starting a search from the location
bar. I couldn't reproduce it from a test account, so I looked again
at my preferences. Once I picked google (or any other option) from the
pull down menu, it started working. I'm guessing this was hurting me:
user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine", "engine:///var/athena/infoagents/arch/i386_linux24/MIT-only/mozilla/searchplugins/google.src");
I still have no history in the pull-down, or being used in the
auto-complete; since blowing away all the relevant stuff a week ago, a
history.txt that looks plausible has accumulated, whereas my history.dat
is still very small.
(There's at least one OLC user who's since noticed the lack of history,
also, and I can reproduce it with a test account, so it's not just me.)
