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)

61 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

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.
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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