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According to the documentation of keyword searches, you can specify %S instead of %s in a bookmark to prevent escaping. However, this is not working for me: trying to make a quick search for Wayback Machine always results in escaped URLs being passed, which give an error from the Internet Archive.

Do I understand the documentation correctly? Does this work?

Sam Brightman
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It's currently working in Firefox 70.

archgood  https://web.archive.org/web/*/%S
archbad  https://web.archive.org/web/*/%s
archgood https://www.google.com/  https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.google.com/
archbad https://www.google.com/  https://web.archive.org/web/*/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

You probably have the wrong URL if you created the search by right clicking the search box and selecting "Add a Keyword for this Search". Firefox records the form's submission URL, but the Wayback Machine intercepts/cancels form submission and redirects to another location with JavaScript instead.

Note that the capital %S only works when you add the search engine via the bookmark editor like this:

Adding it on the settings page only allows you specify a lowercase %s.

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