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#732
w3m shows different results than Firefox browser
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Reported by: xah lee <xah <at> xahlee.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:55:04 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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This appears to be a w3m bug or the w3m-mode bug and can be
reproduced 100%.
Summary:
The results from using Opera, Safari, Firefox, in google search seems
to differ from results shown in w3m, for certain url string.
To test, try this url in Firefox and w3m/emacs:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The%20computer%20wizards%20at%
20Industrial%20Light%20and%20Magic%20help%20alchemize%22
standard browsers shows many results, top one is this time mag article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981238-1,00.html
Safari, Firefox, Opera seems show identical results. (some has
cookies turned on, some not, so this search shouldn't depends on
cookies)
but in w3m it just shows one vocabulary page on my website that
quoted this phrase.
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GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
of 2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp
The w3m mode i'm using is: emacs-w3m-1.4.4
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
of 2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.11
configured using `configure '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/
Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/
Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-Os -arch
i386 -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI -
DUSE_MAC_TSM''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: nil
locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Emacs-Lisp
Minor modes in effect:
encoded-kbd-mode: t
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
desktop-save-mode: t
delete-selection-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
abbrev-mode: t
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On 2008-08-16 22:44 +0200, xah lee wrote:
> This appears to be a w3m bug or the w3m-mode bug and can be reproduced
> 100%.
>
> Summary:
> The results from using Opera, Safari, Firefox, in google search seems
> to differ from results shown in w3m, for certain url string.
>
> To test, try this url in Firefox and w3m/emacs:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The%20computer%20wizards%20at%
> 20Industrial%20Light%20and%20Magic%20help%20alchemize%22
>
> standard browsers shows many results, top one is this time mag article:
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981238-1,00.html
>
> Safari, Firefox, Opera seems show identical results. (some has cookies
> turned on, some not, so this search shouldn't depends on cookies)
>
> but in w3m it just shows one vocabulary page on my website that quoted
> this phrase.
This is PEBKAC, just remove the %22 quotation marks. With them, the
above URL shows only one result in any browser I've tried, including
Firefox and Konqueror; without them, w3m and other browsers show many
results.
Fortunately, Google does not seem to discriminate "non-standard"
browsers yet.
Sven
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