Closed Bug 1645022 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Cannot use search operators in first position of the address bar

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Firefox 79
All
Android

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: txzeybjqqftytfuspc, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Simply open Firefox, tap the address bar and search something that starts with a search operators like site:google.com or filetype:pdf.

Example: "site:mozilla.org firefox nightly"

Actual results:

"The address wasn't understood [...] The following protocols (site) isn't associated with any program or is not allowed in this context".

Expected results:

The search operator should have been forwarded to the search engine, as it does in Firefox desktop.

OS: Unspecified → Android
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Priority: -- → P5

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10516 exists for Firefox Preview. This won't be fixed in classic Firefox for Android 68. If you are using any Fenix based Firefox browser such as Firefox for Android Beta, Firefox Preview, Firefox Nightly or Firefox Preview Nightly issues should be reported at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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