URLs with a space and ending in a question mark are repointed to search
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: docorbit, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Set up browser for separate address field and search engine field
- In the address field, type the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why Should I Love You?
- Press enter
Attempted workaround:
- In the address field, type the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why Should I Love You?
- Press up arrow key
- Press Enter
Actual results:
- URL opens as search string in my preferred search engine
- Search preferences open
Expected results:
- Requested URL opens at Wikipedia
- Requested URL opens at Wikipedia
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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Correction:
Expected results:
- Requested URL opens at Wikipedia
- Requested URL opens at Wikipedia
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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(Sorry, Bugzilla changes the 6 to a 4. Correction:)
- Requested URL opens at Wikipedia.
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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Re-correcting:
Actual results:
3 URL opens as search string in my preferred search engine
6 Search preferences open
Expected results:
3 Requested URL opens at Wikipedia
6 Requested URL opens at Wikipedia
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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Spaces in the path should always be encoded, and searching Wikipedia can be done more easily through its dedicated search engine. But the fact the url starts with a valid scheme must be considered.
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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Well, yes, and the ? gets encoded as %3F as well. But this would best be handled by the browser, not the user, as it is technical and not something the average user would understand. Presumably that is a separate bug, however. In the case of this bug, it is specifically triggered by the presence of both a space and a question mark. The space alone or question mark alone does not trigger the bug.
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Comment 7•4 years ago
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Also noting the following in the preference pane:
Search Bar
Use the address bar for search and navigation
Add search bar in toolbar
If I've chosen Add search bar in toolbar (which sets browser.search.widget.inNavBar to true), I would expect it not to use the address bar for search and navigation. That is, I would expect it to no longer be awesome.
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Comment 8•4 years ago
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The Address Bar functionality doesn't depend on Search Bar preferences, and we don't plan to change that.
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