Closed Bug 257198 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Location bar should not display encoded URL; should display decoded (plaintext) URL

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105909

People

(Reporter: keith, Assigned: bugs)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Visit http://kano.net/in/filename%20with%20spaces and the Firefox location bar
will show "http://kano.net/in/filename%20with%20spaces".

I think a more intuitive behavior would be to display
"http://kano.net/in/filename with spaces", since this is the actual text of the
URL before URL-encoding it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105909 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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