1678190 - Cannot use "keyword" alone in the address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1675996

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

STR:

• Open Firefox with a new profile
• Open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
• Click ... menu, Choose "Add Search Engine"
• Open preferences, go to search, and under search shortcuts, add a shortcut for Bugzilla@Mozilla, e.g. "b"
• Open new tab, open the address bar and type "b" and hit enter (no space after b, nothing else).

With Firefox up to and including version 82, this would open bugzilla.
With Firefox 83 onwards, this opens a Google search for "b".

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

This is an expected behavior change, we are not interested into supporting the old way to go to the search form just typing the keyword, for now you can use just plain bookmarks, or autofill by typing the beginning of the engine domain.