1017518 - When you search something with a dot (.) character using the address bar, firefox automatically look for an address.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1080682

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Tronche Victorien]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox.
Type os.path in the address bar.
Hit enter. 


Actual results:

Firefox automaticaly goes to the website http://www.os.path/ whitch of course doesn't exists. 


Expected results:

Firefox should go to google (or any other  search engine) and look for the term "os.path"

Note that if yout type "os.path" with quotes in the adressbar it works.

Comment 1

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop QA]

Confirming the issue on Mac OSX 10.9.2 and Windows 7 64bit using latest Nightly 33.0a1 (buildID: 20140701030202). 
When I type os.path in the address bar, the www.os.path (with "Firefox can't find the server at www.os.path") page is displayed. 
Only if I type "os.path" (with quotes), Firefox go to google and look for the term "os.path".

Comment 2

[Jeb Rosen]

Attachment: array.splice example

This is very annoying for searching libraries for programming, when the language in question uses dots for member access.

For example:
Array.splice (javascript)
Path.GetExtension (.NET)

In the past, these would go to the search page; now they come up with the Server not found page shown in the attachment I uploaded.

"can't find www.array.splice"

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Gijs, IIRC you worked on something related; do you happen to know if this is a dupe, or the expected behavior?

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Jeb Rosen from comment #2)
> In the past, these would go to the search page

I don't think this is true. I think this has never "worked" right. I just checked on builds as far back as 2012, and they are broken, too.