1566151 - Address bar does not autocomplete/autofill IDN/internationalized TLDs

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Марко М. Костић (Marko M. Kostić) [:Kostic]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Steps to reproduce:

Wrote "гно" (gno) in the address bar.

Actual results:

Nothing.

Expected results:

Firefox should autocomplete "гно" to the domain "гном.срб" (gnom.srb), as it does with the ASCII domain names.

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Thanks for reporting this. I'm surprised we don't have a bug on file already. I looked for one but didn't find anything.

It looks like we end up storing punycode in moz_places and moz_origins. So we'd need somehow to make the unicode translation available when searching moz_origins. We could translate back to unicode when searching or add a unicode column to moz_origins to avoid translating at search time.

I checked Chrome and Safari, and they both autofill IDNs, so we're behind the curve here. I'd really like to work on this, but we have higher priorities at the moment.

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Tweaking the summary to make this a little easier to find in searches and my own quantumbar.

Comment 3

[kjell]

Not sure if this bug refers to (in layman terms) "well known sites" or "sites in browsing history". So, adding this info just in case...

I am hit by this bug regarding history. I.e. I often visit urval.företagskontakt.se, which i punycoded into urval.xn--fretagskontakt-vpb.se. When I open a new tab and type "urval." it appears in the dropdown of suggestions, but as soon as I type one more letter "urval.f", it disappears, because it would only match if I type an x, "urval.x", i.e. matching the puncode version.

A fix would be very much appreciated.

Comment 4

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

This seems like an S2 according to the definition: "Major Functionality/product severely impaired and a satisfactory workaround doesn't exist"

Marco, please update if you disagree.

Comment 5

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

S2 though mens we should start working on this now, but this is not a regression, it never worked. I agree with the assessment, but resourcing may be a problem, unless you were planning to work on this. Otherwise maybe P2-S3.