Thanks. I figured it out. The search was invoking firefox through the
command specified for firefox in alacarte(Main Menu). The command in
alacarte was a plain '/usr/bin/firefox'. I changed it to '/usr/bin/firefox
%u' and now firefox is being invoked with the search url.

I think I had earlier changed the invocation command in alacarte without
realizing the consequences.

-Abhijith

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]>wrote:

> Le samedi 03 décembre 2011 à 22:06 +0530, Abhijith Madhav a écrit :
> > My default browser is firefox. When I fire a google or a wikipedia
> > search from the activities pane, only the browser is launched with a
> > blank page. The search is not fired in the browser.I suspect that
> > firefox is not being launched with the search url. How can I correct
> this?
> I think you should first look at ~/.xsession-errors to check no related
> message is printed there.
>
> If that's not the case, you can add log() lines to debug what happens to
> activateResult() in js/ui/search.js (it's
> in /usr/share/applications/gnome-shell if you installed it from a
> package). More precisely, you can add
> log(url)
> before the try{}/catch{} block, and something like
> log("Block 1")
> log("Block 2")
> in each part, to check what solution is used to start Firefox.
>
>
> Cheers
>
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