1284045 - entered text is considered as a domain name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1080682

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[doaxan]

Attachment: fire.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160702004021

Steps to reproduce:

1) Enter in address bar ModemManager.service
2) Push enter


Actual results:

Firefox will enter a non-existent address. "Search for" also unavailable.


Expected results:

Start the search for a given request

Comment 1

[doaxan]

Attachment: fire2.png

Comment 2

[mazahakaforever]

Affects me too.

Comment 3

[rctgamer3]

This is not a valid bug. The address bar is meant for entering URLs, not to search. If you enter something in it that does not contain whitespace it is treated as a URL and will fail to resolve as such. Use the dedicated search bar for searches instead.

Comment 4

[doaxan]

(In reply to rctgamer3 from comment #3)
> This is not a valid bug. The address bar is meant for entering URLs, not to
> search. If you enter something in it that does not contain whitespace it is
> treated as a URL and will fail to resolve as such. Use the dedicated search
> bar for searches instead.

Why should I use a separate search bar, if I can use the address bar? In Chromium is works good, why not in Firefox? 
> The address bar is meant for entering URLs, not to search.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-web-address-bar involves the use of the address bar to search for different things, why are you offer me to use a different input field? I ask to consider this issue and to extend the current functionality possible. For example, Seamonkey given the opportunity to select the "Search for".

Comment 5

[alexyalinc]

I also consider that firefox needs to get a similar convenient opportunity.

Comment 6

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Marco is this a dupe?