Closed Bug 1485296 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

firefox deals strangely with www and search engine keyword

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
61 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: xavier.bonnetain_moz, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180704194937

Steps to reproduce:

- Define a keyword for a search engine (e.g. d for DuckDuckGo)
- enter www.[KEYWORD] in the awesome bar (e.g. www.d)

It seems to work with any keyword, but only with www.[KEYWORD] .


Actual results:

firefox loads the search page of the given search engine with the 3 last letters of www.[KEYWORD] (e.g. duckduckgo.com/?q=w.d )


Expected results:

Probably not that.

It may try to resolve the url, or do a normal search on the full text with the current search engine.
Reproducible in the latest release, but not beta. mozregression-gui reveals this was fixed by bug 1239708.

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=73c2c4c8ce60283ddf16f38f91812b3ac23d506f&tochange=6f0272415280e8daf91c2dca961e6da3d189f684
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Has STR: --- → yes
Closed: 6 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
Depends on: 1239708
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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