1928916 - Short URLs should have an option to be resolved as address rather than web search

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox for Android :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Adam Garcia]

Steps to reproduce:

I have many local network hosts to resolve using their short name, I want to go directly to their web services via "host/path", but it will become a search query unless I've been there before.

Actual results:

1. Setup a local area network host that is web accessible and resolvable via their short name instead of the FQDN. In my case I have a web host named and listening for requests sent to "go".
2. Open a new tab and type in go/foo. Ensure that path is something new to the firefox instance and is not it its history, and does actually exist so it will produce an http 200 from the host.

Expected results:

It should try to take me to http://go/foo. Or to the https version if https everywhere is enabled.

If this isn't preferable behavior, at least give me a drop down option in the suggest bar to resolve it rather than search for this string in my defined search engine.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Fenix::Search' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.