User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-731149-20120430182921

While we wait for the search/go buttons, with configurable option to decide which one we want as default(when we press enter), you can use this:

A rough temporary way to solve this with firefox+greasemonkey or other browsers with userscript support: // ==UserScript== // @name          Wikia search fix // @description   Wikia search fix // @include       http://*.wikia.com/index.php?search=* // @include       http://*.wikia.com/wiki/index.php?search=* // @include       http://*.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=* // ==/UserScript==

(function {  'use strict';  var new_loc = unsafeWindow.$('div.searchresults strong a').attr('href');  if (new_loc) {    if (new_loc.substr(0, 4) !== 'http') {      new_loc = window.location.host + new_loc;      new_loc = 'http://' + (new_loc.replace(/\/+/g, '/'));    }    window.location.href = new_loc;  } }); for opera and maybe others just replace "unsafeWindow" with "window", tested on newest firefox and opera.

It identifies the "top" result and redirects to it (only if top result available). I'm not sure how well it works for other namespaces than main, if wikia doesn't listen to people and fix this I will make another userscript that replaces the search and uses mediawiki API to make it like the old one, but we'll see.