190035 - Use URL history to finish a URL, arrow to correct entry, Ctrl-Enter duplicates URL data

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177618

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Chad Roberts]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

When using the URL history list and Cntl-Enter, the browser replaces URL text
with portions of the URL duplicated, thus taking you to an incorrect site.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the Location bar: Type www.goo   (history list is displayed, first entry
is http://www.google.com)
2. Using the arrow keys, select http://www.google.com from the history list
3. Press Cntl-Enter

Actual Results:  
URL is replaced by "http://www.http://www.google.com/.com and incorrect site is
displayed in new tab.

Expected Results:  
Placed http://www.google.com in the location bar

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Ctrl+Enter currently always add http:// ... .com/ to what is in the URIbar. You
don't need to hit it if you already have a URI like "http://www.google.com/" in
your URIbar. Just hit enter.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177618 ***

Comment 2

[noririty]

v.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

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