175634 - New Feature Request: Fix TLD typos in entered URL

Status: REOPENED

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Jake Olefsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I have clumbsy fingers.  Frequently when I am typing in a URL, I type '.con' or
'com' instead of '.com', but I press enter before I notice and then I get an
error.  I would be really nice if Mozilla could auto-correct certain common
typos. Mozilla could search for the typed in URL first, and if it cant connect
it could either pop up a window of suggested URLs, or if there is only 1
suggestion just go there.  

So, if I enter 'www.googlecom'. I would take me to 'www.google.com' once it
realized that I made a typo.  I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "www.googlecom" into the URL area and hit enter.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
An error pops up that says the website could not be found.  You have to click ok
before retyping your request.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should recognize that "www.googlecom" is a typo and autocorrect it to
"www.google.com".

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This feature request is already filed.... please search for the original bug and
mark this duplicate.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Adding qawanted per comment 1.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 312096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Christopher Finke]

I have written an extension to fulfill this feature request: http://efinke.com/url-fixer/ (and at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2871/
 once it is approved.)  It will correct most typos that are related to the TLD (specifically .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, and .mil), and you can set it to confirm before making the correction or to just correct automatically.

Comment 7

[Oliver Henshaw]

Does this include typos in the protocol? Sometimes I mis-highlight when copy-pasting a url and end up with "ttp://" in the address bar.

Comment 8

[u88484]

This or another bug should definitely cover mispellings of any variation of "http://" "www" and TLDs

Comment 9

[Philip Chee]

Nowadays anything can be a TLD including .con .googlecom .xxx. WONTFIX

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

Do you really think ICANN would allow someone to register .con for the purpose of typosquatting?

Comment 11

[Phoenix]

As I understand, add-on from Comment 4 doing this job just fine, although it's address on AMO now https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/url-fixer/
I suppose, WONTFIX is valid resolution here then

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

Eh?  "An extension exists" is evidence in favor of a change, not a reason to reject it.

Comment 13

[Philip Chee]

I'd say it's extension fodder myself.