243332 - CTRL-Enter does not add www. and .com if URL starts with www

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233853

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[u116418]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040511 Firehawk/0.8.0+ (Lohvarn)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040511 Firehawk/0.8.0+ (Lohvarn)

CTRL-Enter's behavior needs to be consistent.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in www in the location bar
2. Hit CTRL-Enter
Actual Results:  
Firefox takes you to your homepage.


Expected Results:  
Firefox should at least add .com, or www. AND .com

The string is not limited to www but to anything that starts with www

Comment 1

[David P James]

<< yet another reason why this feature was a bad idea >>

I'm afraid this was added as an optimization of the Ctrl+Enter feature to avoid
going to something like www.cnn.com.com or www.www.cnn.com.com etc by accident.

There's no straight forward way to exempt a "proto-url" like www, and it's
pretty much a solitary case anyway.

Sorry.

-->WONTFIX

Comment 2

[u116418]

It is not exactly a solitary case. Try the following legitimate, different websites:
http://www.www-history.com/
http://www.www-net.com/
http://www.www-internet.com/
http://www.wwweb.com/
http://www.wwweb.org/
http://www.wwww.com/
http://www.www-business.com/
http://www.www-business.org/
http://www.wwwebster.com/
http://www.wwwaddresses.com/
http://www.www-shop.com/
http://www.wwww.org/
http://www.www-web.com/
http://www.www.org/
http://www.www3.com/
http://www.wwwin.com/
http://www.www-gap.com/
or any website that starts with www

I would like you to reconsider. Ignoring sites just because they are "rare" or
"unlikely to be visited" would not sound very valid to me.

For what it's worth, Internet Explorer does add http://www. and .com for sites
starting in www

Comment 3

[u116418]

Attachment: Simple patch

Comment 4

[David P James]

That patch undoes the previous optimization, but it was enough to make me
realize there was a way to do this after all.

Duping against bug 233853 where I'll attach a patch shortly to fix this, that
and something else.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233853 ***