229893 - Google search of keywords typed in the addressbar is broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 229668

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101 Firebird/0.7+

When I type a keyword in the address bar and hit enter, Firebird no longer does
a "I'm feeling lucky" google search with the keyword, but instead tries to
resolve the keyword to a hostname.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type "adblock" in the address bar, hit enter

Actual Results:  
- Firebird tries to resolve the host "adblock"
- The host resolution doesn't timeout
- The Firebird process takes 100% of the CPU
- "Spinning Beach Ball of Death" locks Firebird

Expected Results:  
Firebird should have performed a "I'm feeling lucky" google query and redirected
to http://adblock.mozdev.org/

This used to work as expected with 20031220.

Comment 1

[Ian]

*** Bug 229899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Greg Campbell]

Confirmed Windows XP.

I believe this regressed in the last week or so; I didn't test many builds over
the holidays.

This is pretty major since it locks up Firebird and the new help component
specifically drums up URL guessing on the first page of help. I'd recommend
severity=major or critical.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101
Firebird/0.7+ (aebrahim)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229668 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

V/dupe.