1087205 - Fx 33 regression: Recalling local address from search bar goes to Google search instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 690307

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Marti Raudsepp]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141016231145

Steps to reproduce:

When I have previously browsed HTTP pages on a local hostname, for example "foo":
1. Open new tab
2. Press down arrow in address bar to recall an address http://foo/wiki/Bar
3. Press enter



Actual results:

Takes me to a Google search for "foo/wiki/Bar" instead of the actual address. I don't entirely understand what circumstances cause this problem. Doesn't occur with all addresses, just some of them.


Expected results:

Should recall the previous address from history.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Dupe of bug 1083634?

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> Dupe of bug 1083634?

I'd sooner say bug 690307. It boils down to the same thing: the thing that we use as the "URI" for the location bar entry isn't an actual URI, and so it goes through the fixup service. We changed the fixup service, and now people see the symptoms of bug 690307 not just for URLs with spaces but also for URLs that have single hostnames.

Marti: to workaround, open just "foo" in the locationbar (don't type the protocol), and click the "yes, take me to foo" button, and you shouldn't see this anymore.

(unfortunately, you'd need to do that for all instances of "foo" that you use; alternatively, add boolean preferences in about:config of the form "browser.fixup.domainwhitelist.foo" that are set to true)