555968 - Firefox is redirecting to a common url for all request

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[kskuppu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1042 Safari/532.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

Bad Example :http://www.google.com
If you enter any url that starts with :http:// it is redirecting to 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter any url prefixed with ":"
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Expected Results:  
Instead of the actual site it is loading a common page from wikipedia

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

actually that is the first google result for "http" search

Comment 2

[kskuppu]

Thats true. But is this the expected outcome from the user's point of view? From the end-user perspective it would be better if the ":" is simply omitted and the actual site gets loaded. Does this makes sense?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

I think this is now fixed, since bug 565966 disabled the "I'm feeling lucky" functionality in Firefox 4.0, exactly to avoid these surprising events.