1246204 - address bar suggests nonexistent, and non-history host name

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Charlie Herron]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160123151951

Steps to reproduce:

Successfully visited www.example.net and example.domain.com ("example" represents the same string in both URLs). I've never been to www.example.domain.com, or if I did, it has always resulted in NXDOMAIN.

At any point (open new tab or restart browser) later, start typing "www.exam..." into the address bar.


Actual results:

Address bar suggests www.example.domain.com every time.


Expected results:

Expect it to suggest "www.example.net". www.example.domain.com is not in my history, so https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-websites-awesome-bar-suggestions didn't work. I don't believe this is a duplicate of Bug #66183 since I'm already typing the "www" part.

I would think this is pretty straightforward to deal with, since if a person is manually typing www, then the automatic www./.com feature should probably turn off, and a regular history lookup should be used.

Comment 1

[Charlie Herron]

Update: I changed browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false and it's still happening.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this has nothing to do with fixup, we try to provide more results rather than less, even if that means sometimes we may be wrong. since we'd suggest example.com, when you type www.exam, we guess you may want www.example.com. It's not in your history, we still think in many cases it's worth it cause most users think it is always necessary to type www.