1733367 - I enter "http://somehost" in the address bar, but Firefox loads "http://www.somehost.com/"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Entering "http://somehost" in the address bar.

Actual results:

Firefox loads "http://www.somehost.com/".

Expected results:

The "somehost" is not resolving on my network, thus an appropriate error message is expected.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Networking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

This behavior is present on all OSes and last versions of main channels.
I think this bug should be set as an enhancement, but considering that this behavior might have a bigger impact than I can imagine, I will confirm it as a defect and set its severity to S3. Please change them if incorrect.

Reporter, thank you for your contribution!

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is actually the expected behavior from a lot of years, if we can't load a single-word host, we try alternate fixup that adds www. and .com to it.
By that, this is an invalid bug.
That said, we are discussing about the possibility to remove this feature in bug 1679556.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

note you can disable this behavior setting browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false in about:config

Comment 5

[g6k9a5blw5qxO92-m0z]

Perfect, thank you. And thank you for the about:config hint.