search alias : odd issue


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Here is a very odd issue

I can reproduce it with all my search alias :

search engine : wordreference http://www.wordreference.com/fren/%us

search alias "fren"

when I type fren + space the search engine is now wordreference as shown below word.png

Usually, when I type any word in address bar, the word reference page opens on this word, that's good

but this does not work with this  particular word :"specieux" and all words begining with "sp" "st" "sc" "sm"(spot, sport, special, stupide ..) :  my default seach engine (google) opens instead of wordreference

a search suggestion (smartbox) is suggested in address bar when I type s... and it looks like it "reroutes" the search engine to google.

specieux.png

specieux2.png

 

i can reproduce this error with other search engines. 

At first I thought it might be related to "sp" and "alias", but none of my search engine uses sp as an alias.

seracheng.png

 

 

 

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Canèt confirm, as you can see Ièm using french keyboard and French language in Maxthon. I even used fren as a the alias for wordreference( previously added to test a witches brew!)lol The only difference I see is that only ÈFrenchÈ is being added to search name. No idea why but Ièm using your same url.

What happens if you use just %s instead of %us?

 

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1 hour ago, joemax said:

Canèt confirm, as you can see Ièm using french keyboard and French language in Maxthon. I even used fren as a the alias for wordreference( previously added to test a witches brew!)lol The only difference I see is that only ÈFrenchÈ is being added to search name. No idea why but Ièm using your same url.

What happens if you use just %s instead of %us?

 

 

 

My maxton is in english (language setting is not very handy now, so I do no longer change)... it's not related to language

if I use %s instead of %us, accented characters don't show

my search alias works fine most of the times,  I could only reproduce this issue with a few words and now that I have restarted maxthon, and "smartbox" suggestion has gone, I can't reproduce the issue either...

it looks as if a previous entry (smartbox) remained in address bar suggestions and took the focus

 

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