235478 - http// takes you to http://microsoft.com/

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kent Brede]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Note "http//" with the colon missing is not a typo.  "http://" alerts you to
"The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded."  I would think the same should be
true for, "http//"  This is also true for version .8 of Firefix on the Windows
platform. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http// into address bar and hit "return"
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The browser loades http://microsoft.com/

Expected Results:  
It should alert you the URL is invalid.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Firefox is treating it as a search keyword.  If you enter search terms in the
address field, Firefox will return the result of a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search at
Google.

And if you do such a search for 'http//' at Google, the first result is
microsoft.com.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 236168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** Bug 255483 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 258336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***