1642112 - Any slash in the URL/search bar turns into a URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1398567

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[kaygeee]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Copy exactly: BT7512/15
2. Past Into the URL bar.
3. Push Enter.

Actual results:

Error: Server Not Found
URL turned into: http://www.bt7512.com/15

Expected results:

The URL should have turned into:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=BT7512/15

Because I was clearly looking for a product model number, not a server when i pasted my string into the URL/Search Bar:

Any search with a forward slash in it turns into a URL which is very annoying.

This might be desirable for example for:
github/khalilgharbaoui

Which turns into:
https://github.com/khalilgharbaoui

But not for everything by default.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is fixed in Firefox 78!