1406654 - WWW is always added to typed domain names if visited the page with WWW earlier

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[tkzv]

1. Delete the pages http://opennet.ru/ and http://www.opennet.ru/ from history, if you have them.
2. Open a new tab and type "opennet.ru" — the page http://opennet.ru/ is opened correctly.
3. Open a new tab and type "www.opennet.ru" — the page http://www.opennet.ru/ is opened correctly; it is visibly different from http://opennet.ru/.
4. Open a new tab and start typing "opennet.ru" — a history list appears, the entry for http://www.opennet.ru/ is offered. This is incorrect.
5. Press left or right arrow — history list disappears, "opennet.ru/" remains in the address bar.
6. Press "Enter" — the page http://www.opennet.ru/ is opened. This is incorrect. The two pages are distinctly different, the user explicitly requested the page without "www", but is given the wrong page.

If you delete http://www.opennet.ru/, the page without "www" is opened correctly.

Observed in version 55.0.2. May be related to bug #595767.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

(In reply to tkzv from comment #0)
> 4. Open a new tab and start typing "opennet.ru" — a history list appears,
> the entry for http://www.opennet.ru/ is offered. This is incorrect.

Well, this is a subjective evaluation.

To be able to provide the most results, the awesomebar tries to ignore "www" subdomains, and as such it is suggesting to you the result that it think it's more relevant. In history you have both, both the www version has been typed lately.
If you'd have typed the non-www version more often, it would suggest that one.
We have bugs on file to improve the selection algorithm (bug 1239708).

> 5. Press left or right arrow — history list disappears, "opennet.ru/"
> remains in the address bar.
> 6. Press "Enter" — the page http://www.opennet.ru/ is opened. This is
> incorrect. The two pages are distinctly different, the user explicitly
> requested the page without "www", but is given the wrong page.

It suggested to you the www version, closing the popup is not going to change that.

You can enforce the visit typing the scheme, http://openned.ru/ should do, does it still to to the www version?

To sum up, this is partially a dupe of bug 1239708, partially invalid, because whatever algorithm we'll implement, it will sometimes take a decision different from what a specific user expect.

Comment 2

[tkzv]

There has to be a simple and obvious way to refuse an incorrect suggestion. Closing the popup is one possible way to refuse. If it's reserved for something else, there needs to be something equally easy for the user.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

with bug 1239708 fixed, this is also fixed.