Closed Bug 1123071 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Redirect to www.example.com if example.com is not reachable

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Navigation
Version:
37 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66183

People

(Reporter: me, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150109145718

Steps to reproduce:

Visit any URL that's not reachable, e.g. http://idonotexists.com/



Actual results:

Firefox will redirect to http://www.idonotexists.com/ automatically and show the www version in the address bar.


Expected results:

Firefox should keep http://idonotexists.com/ in the address bar, at least after it tried  http://www.idonotexists.com/ unsuccessfully.
Component: Untriaged → Document Navigation
Product: Firefox → Core
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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