Closed Bug 1670274 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

url bar defaults to search engine on local URLs if they are followed by a path

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
78 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1642435

People

(Reporter: supermattt, Unassigned)

Details

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

Steps to reproduce:

  1. have a web server on your network like a shortlink server:
    eg go.mycompanycorp.com
  2. in the url bar, type go/foo

Actual results:

Firefox will launch a search for go/foo
instead of trying go.mycompanycorp.com/foo

Expected results:

Many companies use short links eg.
go/foo

which typically resolves to http://go.mycompanycorp.com/foo with proper DNS configuration.

Since Firefox 78, Firefox will automatically search on the search engine instead of trying the local URL if there is a longer path than /

Example:

go/ => http://go.mycompanycorp.com/
go/foobar => Google search for foobar

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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