1648940 - Local virtual host in address bar starts a search instead of loading the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1634650

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Sylvain Brunerie]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

I’m working on my computer using virtual hosts like lads.local. I’m frequently typing URLs like lads.local/something in the address bar.

Actual results:

Since recently, the default behaviour of the address bar for these URLs has changed to "Search with [my default search engine]."

It doesn’t happen with pages I’ve already visited, or if I manually add the http:// prefix (that is my current workaround).

Expected results:

The default behaviour of the address bar used to be "Visit" for these URLs.

I think this should be called a defect, but feel free to mark the report as a request for enhancement.

I’m interested to hear about any config param to "whitelist" virtual hosts or something.

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

[Gingerbread Man]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=9fee43c9403793783bd4bed9000ade31051d3116&tochange=18205ec9467e95cdbe2d3ae3b29aa66a3f9c5e97

I'll just mark this as blocking bug 1080682. Since .local isn't used on the Internet, I'm hesitant to call this a regression.

Comment 3

[Mathew Hodson]

This was fixed by bug 1634650 in Firefox 78