262532 - entering a URL with no colon (http//) always loads www.microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rich Ellis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Type a URL for any site (valid or not) in the Location bar but omit the colon,
as in http//www.xyz.com instead of http://www.xyz.com.  Firefox will
inexplicably load Microsoft's homepage!  The Location bar still shows the
incorrect URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Type http//www.mozilla.org (notice no ":") in Location bar
2.  Hit enter


Actual Results:  
Microsoft's homepage loads

Expected Results:  
Error message, auto-correct to include a colon in the URL, anything other than
loading www.microsoft.com!


I stumbled across this in a dicussion thread: 
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=59e78998ba990e0ae15df1e1b96de9f5&t=33773760&page=2&pp=30

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***