1998234 - URL autocomplete tends to eat `www.`

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox for Android :: Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Kalvin Lee]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0

Steps to reproduce:

I attempted to navigate to either of

• www [dot] event-metro [dot] jp
• www [dot] eki-net [dot] com

(please note that these are Japanese websites, and they might simply refuse to serve requests that appear to originate outside Japan)

I attempted this by typing out

• www.eve or
• www.eki

and waiting for the autocompleted suggestion to appear, which appears as a completion with the TLD and a trailing slash, which I take to mean "root path and nothing else."

I tap somewhere to the right of the autocompleted suggestion to "fully manifest it." The cursor snaps just beyond the trailing slash, and no other path components are appended.

At this point, I attempt to complete the navigation by pressing "enter" on Gboard.

Actual results:

The navigation fails (the site will fail to be found). This is primarily because the URL bar appears to eat the preceding www., without which both sites simply do not respond.

In addition, an unexpected path component (sourced from my personal history) will have been appended onto the path. Presumably this is Firefox trying to elaborate on my most-visited paths. These are, respectively

• rally/ (a now-defunct stamp rally) and
• personal/ (part of a longer path — n.b. this by itself is not sufficient to navigate anywhere meaningful on Eki-net, and will actually take you to an error page)

Expected results:

I feel that Firefox

• should not strip an explicitly supplied www. and
• should not silently add additional paths on the end without some sort of user feedback.

Comment 1

[Kalvin Lee]

An interesting workaround is to "fully manifest" the suggested autocomplete, and then delete the trailing slash. In this case, the navigation appears to work as expected — no www.-eating, and no surprise paths added.

Comment 2

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

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:boek, could you have a look please?

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