1433738 - Address bar completion distinguishes between https://www and www entries

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[dipu.kuttan]

Attachment: ff58-addressbar-completion.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180118215408

Steps to reproduce:

Control-T, open a new tab and type 'n. Based on my previous browsing history, it shows both https://www.nytimes.com and www.nytimes.com as two separate entries (see screenshot attached)


Actual results:

Based on my previous browsing history, it shows both https://www.nytimes.com and www.nytimes.com as two separate entries (see screenshot attached)


Expected results:

Since both these entries have same endpoints, Firefox should have picked up only one of them (maybe the https version?). This is what I was expecting, not sure whether this is designed this way for any specific reasons.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to dipu.kuttan from comment #0)
> Since both these entries have same endpoints, Firefox should have picked up
> only one of them (maybe the https version?). This is what I was expecting,
> not sure whether this is designed this way for any specific reasons.

Who tells you they are pointing to the same destination? It may be true for most pages, but it's not an assumption we can make, there will always be cases where that is untrue, and then we'd fail to provide a valid suggestion to the user. If the site cares about being secure, it should use HSTS.
Unfortunately, since nobody can tell us if the destination is the same, we can't undupe the urls. Maybe one day, when 99% of the Web will be https, we can do the switch.