Searching using "keyword:" doesn't work in Galeon 2.0.4.

[Aubrey Barnard]

Helpful Galeon users/developers,

Summary:
Searching using "keyword:" doesn't work in Galeon 2.0.4.

Problem:
I have recently gone from Fedora 5 to Fedora 8 (Galeon 2.0.3 to Galeon
2.0.4). It was mostly a smooth transition, but one thing is bugging me
about using Galeon. Searching using "keyword:" in the address/location
text field doesn't conduct a search but returns an error message: "Firefox
doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (keyword)
isn't associated with any program." In about:config I have keyword.enabled
set to true.

What happened? Why doesn't this work? Is there any way to restore the
desired functionality?

Thank you for your suggestions and help on this matter. I am happy to
provide more information to help diagnose the problem.

Aubrey


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[Nemo-13]

Aubrey,

I have never used the 'keyword:' pseudo protocol searching before,
referring to use smart bookmarks. Other users will correct me if I'm
wrong, but I believe google is setup by default - just type "google
hello world" (for example) into the address bar, and galeon will load an
appropriately formatted search query for "hello world"

Smart bookmarks can be setup for any site where the search query can be
drafted into the URL. For example, I have an IMDb smart bookmark:
Name: IMDb
Nicknames: imdb
Location: http://www.imdb.com/
Smart URL: http://www.imdb.com/Find?%s

The 'nicknames' are shortcuts for the URL - so in this example I can now
just type 'imdb goonies' and will get the imdb search page which is more
than likely having the Goonies as top result.

Hope this all helps (unless I've misunderstood the usage of keyword:
entirely and this is all old news :)

.../Nemo







On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:35:01AM -0800, Aubrey Barnard did utter:

> Helpful Galeon users/developers,
>
> Summary:
> Searching using "keyword:" doesn't work in Galeon 2.0.4.
>
> Problem:
> I have recently gone from Fedora 5 to Fedora 8 (Galeon 2.0.3 to Galeon
> 2.0.4). It was mostly a smooth transition, but one thing is bugging me
> about using Galeon. Searching using "keyword:" in the address/location
> text field doesn't conduct a search but returns an error message: "Firefox
> doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (keyword)
> isn't associated with any program." In about:config I have keyword.enabled
> set to true.
>
> What happened? Why doesn't this work? Is there any way to restore the
> desired functionality?
>
> Thank you for your suggestions and help on this matter. I am happy to
> provide more information to help diagnose the problem.
>
> Aubrey
>
>
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