1655914 - foobar.example can’t be searched in awesomebar via paste & go option

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Maria Berlinger [:mberlinger], Services QA]

Attachment: paste&go.gif

Suggested severity

• S2

Affected versions

• 79.0
• 80.0b1
• 81.0a1 (2020-07-28)

Affected platforms

• Windows 10x64
• Windows 7x64
• Ubuntu 18.04x64
• macOS 10.15

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Copy foobar.example string
3. Right click in the awesomebar
4. Click paste & go

Expected result

• Search is performed for the entered string.

Actual result

• www.<searched_string> and go to that website, which is invalid url: "We’re having trouble finding that site."

Regression range

• First bad: 9a2f741cef6ae4ae568a17fd3ffe52599f0a574f (2020-05-23)
• Last good: d6abd35b54ad39fa030217716b172fa9883bf3c8 (2020-05-22)
• Pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=d6abd35b54ad39fa030217716b172fa9883bf3c8&tochange=9a2f741cef6ae4ae568a17fd3ffe52599f0a574f
• Potentially regressed by: 1636583

Additional notes

• see the attached screen record

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

.example is an allowed domain suffix, so this is expected.
See https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/d9f92154813fbd4a528453c33886dc3a74f27abb/browser/app/profile/firefox.js#209

Because foobar.example is recognized as a possible valid origin, we don't search for it.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

note also .foo and .bar are valid suffixes, to test paste & go search you could use something like foo.baa