1484661 - CTRL+ENTER on @amazon and @google brings up login confirmation window

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Cristian Fogel [:cfogel]]

Attachment: aweomebar@.png

[Affected versions]:
- 62.0b18, 63.0a1 (2018-08-19) 

[Affected platforms]:
- Win 10x64, Ubuntu 16.04LTS, macOS 10.9

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Launch Firefox;
2. Type either "@amazon" or "@google" in the awesomebar;
3. Press CTRL+ENTER on the keyboard.

[Expected result]:
- The Google/Amazon search page is opened, Nothing else;
- www.google.com / www.amazon.com address in the address bar;

[Actual result]:
- the  log in to the site(with username) confirmation window is displayed;
- [e-mail] / [e-mail] address in the address bar;

[Regression range]:
- not a regression;

[Additional notes]:
- attached screenshot with the issue;
- CMD+ENTER for macOS.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This is reproducible on older builds of Firefox if you use @ at the beginning of a search keyword (and probably a bookmark keyword).

So this is not new.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is indeed the expected behavior based on the code... CTRL+Enter applies canonization that transforms @amazon in [e-mail], that pretty much is amazon.com with a userpass part.
We could and probably should special case strings starting with @, but it's unclear why one would press ctrl+Enter on these anyway.