that is the difference between hitting "Enter" to initiate an external search, or before or not hitting "Enter" for the internal search.

• Location Bar search - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, There are two types of searching that can be done from the Location Bar.

For the "Not Helpful response", note,

When you went directly to a web site, that was also from a Google search, there are three different Google searches listed in the article, and each is described, pick the one you want, I believe all three of them or something similar with Firefox tags has been used by Firefox.

That's interesting I'm almost positive the first answer was previously marked as "Solved" before I wrote the second. Must be new system -- been a lot of things that seem strange. But I guess it also means the owner liked the second answer better, hope it helped the second person as well It is usually impossible for me to determine why something is marked "not helpful" or if that person could be helped as well.