Closed Bug 1312364 Opened 8 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Location bar autocompletion displays goo%67 >> gogoogle.com/ when typing goo%67 after visiting google.com

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
49 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: yangyudevel, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxsearch]) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

visit google
open new tab and type goo%67


Actual results:

address bar is auto populated with goo%67 >> gogoogle.com/


Expected results:

issue first documented https://hexatomium.github.io/2016/04/26/gogoogle/ half a year ago
I can't repoduce it with FF49 on Win 7.
Component: Untriaged → Location Bar
(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> I can't repoduce it with FF49 on Win 7.

Try to open google.com before doing the test

Able to repro with Firefox 49 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10
STR:
1) Open tab and enter google.com
2) Type goo%67
Summary: address bar autocomplete bug with goo%67 → Location bar autocompletion displays goo%67 >> gogoogle.com/ when typing goo%67 after visiting google.com
ah, this is quite unexpected, I thought we had removed all the "complete in the middle" cases.
Severity: normal → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [fxsearch]
This bug still exists in Firefox 51.0.1

WFM in Nightly

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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