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"Search Web" bug (Index of file:///C:/? foo) Clayton Olley 03-09-2006
Posted by Clayton Olley on March 9, 2006, 2:47 pm
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 I installed the new beta but now I'm having a problem when I choose "Search
Web" from the toolbar.

No matter what I search for I get a page that lists my C: drive contents...

Index of file:///C:/? foo
Program Files
WINDOWS
etc...

Anyone else seeing this? I have IE7 installed but my default browser is
Firefox. I had "google" setup as my web search in the old version...



Posted by JRush on March 9, 2006, 5:34 pm
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 Look here...

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=280529&SiteID=1

hth,

Jeff

>I installed the new beta but now I'm having a problem when I choose "Search
>Web" from the toolbar.
>
> No matter what I search for I get a page that lists my C: drive
> contents...
>
> Index of file:///C:/? foo
> Program Files
> WINDOWS
> etc...
>
> Anyone else seeing this? I have IE7 installed but my default browser is
> Firefox. I had "google" setup as my web search in the old version...
>



Posted by Clayton Olley on March 9, 2006, 5:48 pm
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yeah, "firefox.exe ?searchterm" command line is busted... but that didn't
matter to me before since WDS 2.5 just used a URL
("http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$w") instead of executing your
browser directly... I've switched back to 2.5 until either WDS or Firefox is
changed/fixed.

Oh well. Now if I could just find a trillian plugin for it... :)

> Look here...
>
> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=280529&SiteID=1
>
> hth,
>
> Jeff
>
>>I installed the new beta but now I'm having a problem when I choose
>>"Search Web" from the toolbar.
>>
>> No matter what I search for I get a page that lists my C: drive
>> contents...
>>
>> Index of file:///C:/? foo
>> Program Files
>> WINDOWS
>> etc...
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this? I have IE7 installed but my default browser is
>> Firefox. I had "google" setup as my web search in the old version...
>>
>
>



Posted by Clayton Olley on April 17, 2006, 12:18 pm
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Has anyone found a workaround for this yet?

> yeah, "firefox.exe ?searchterm" command line is busted... but that didn't
> matter to me before since WDS 2.5 just used a URL
> ("http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$w") instead of executing your
> browser directly... I've switched back to 2.5 until either WDS or Firefox
> is changed/fixed.
>
> Oh well. Now if I could just find a trillian plugin for it... :)
>
>> Look here...
>>
>> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=280529&SiteID=1
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>>I installed the new beta but now I'm having a problem when I choose
>>>"Search Web" from the toolbar.
>>>
>>> No matter what I search for I get a page that lists my C: drive
>>> contents...
>>>
>>> Index of file:///C:/? foo
>>> Program Files
>>> WINDOWS
>>> etc...
>>>
>>> Anyone else seeing this? I have IE7 installed but my default browser is
>>> Firefox. I had "google" setup as my web search in the old version...
>>>
>>
>>
>
>



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