1240864 - Search for URL, not load it

Status: NEW

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[stek29]

Attachment: Search suggestions

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20160105164030

Steps to reproduce:

Enable search suggestions
Type something that let you see any domain in suggestions ("example." in yahoo)
Tap suggestion ("example.org", second(!) in list)


Actual results:

It opens site ("example.org")


Expected results:

Search it (Open "https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=example.org")

Comment 1

[stek29]

Attachment: Result

And when I tap on "example.org" I get this.

Comment 2

[stek29]

That's very annoying for nondomains like C libraries, to search for "stdlib.h" I need to add something to query, or I'll see "A server with the specified hostname could not be found." error :(

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

I seem to remember Brian working on this on Android… what do we do there, Brian?

Comment 4

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Same thing -- any single-word result containing a period is considered a domain. We do already have a list of TLDs on iOS, so we could theoretically do a filter with those to make the detection more accurate.

One difference on Android is that the first search suggestion result is always exactly whatever the user typed, but clicking it *always* triggers a search. We don't currently have the query-as-a-suggestion pill on iOS.

Comment 5

[stek29]

There is buttons row with different search engines, so I could type domain and search for it by tapping on one of these. 
But there's no engine which is set to default now. But there's loupe icon, and it allows you to open search setup.
So maybe it's better to allow search by tapping on that?
Or even better: add "open url" button for domains: when user inputs correct url/domain just after search suggestions would be block which opens it.
I mean block like history and bookmark suggestions.

Comment 6

[stek29]

Attachment: image.jpg

It's suggestion from history

Comment 7

[stek29]

Attachment: No suggestion

It would be great if "foobar.com" would show here like "example.com" in previous screenshot.