1644463 - golinks now result in a search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1642435

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Tyler Kindy]

Attachment: golinks-firefox-beta.mov

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

My organization uses golinks for company-wide shortlinks. While we don't use the specific SaaS app described in this article, the first couple paragraphs are a good description of the experience our internal system provides.
https://medium.com/@golinks/the-full-history-of-go-links-and-the-golink-system-cbc6d2c8bb3

We can navigate to go/foobar and an internal service redirects us to the assigned URL.

Actual results:

In the latest builds of Firefox Developer Edition, there's only a search option for anything beyond go/. I can't just navigate to that URL. See the attached video for an example in a new Firefox Developer Edition profile.

Expected results:

A navigate option should be available like in Firefox 77

Comment 1

[Tyler Kindy]

I think I actually found a workaround. If I just type in go and use the search suggestion, Firefox says "Did you mean to go to http://go/?" If I choose "Yes, take me to http://go/", it does so, and then subsequent golinks like go/foobar now work.

Comment 2

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

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

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Please see bug 1642435.
We have a lot of options that will allow you to configure your experience to your likes. What you found in comment 1 is one of those, but there are things you can also evaluate and set preemptively.
In particular, for you case, you can add a boolean pref browser.fixup.domainwhitelist.go set to true in about:config. By answering YES to the "did you mean to go to" prompt, Firefox automatically did that for you. If you have other internal domains you can add further preferences.

Additionally If you are in an enterprise with a private DNS server, and a LOT of different internal domains, you can also use browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words = true, and we'll always go through the dns. It will be a bit slower of course.

In Firefox 78 you'll also be able to allow entire suffixes (through browser.fixup.domainsuffixwhitelist.MYSUFFIX) and force a visit by appending a slash to the string.

Comment 4

[Tyler Kindy]

Thanks for all the context Marco! These options are super useful.