Closed Bug 1242642 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Location bar search query not searched-for if it looks like a domain name

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1080682

People

(Reporter: kerncece+redir, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160125060632

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 47, nightly.

Type query "signal.sig_dfl" in the location bar and press Enter.


Actual results:

Interpreting query as a domain name, Firefox errors:

> Server not found
> 
> Firegox can't find the server at signal.sig_dfl.
> * Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com
> ...


Expected results:

Instead, Firefox should use the default search engine to search for the query (like it does with queries that don't look like domain names), e.g. redirect to https://www.google.com/search?q=signal+sig_dfl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8.
Component: Untriaged → Location Bar
The problem is that we don't know if it's a domain name or not, and we don't want to affect user's privacy and security sending it to a search engine.

On the other side, if we plan to remove the search bar long term, we need a way for the user to force a search.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Whiteboard: [fxsearch][triage]
We should just have a way of using the PSL here. This is tracked in bug 1080682.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: [fxsearch][triage]
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