264533 - If an url doesn't contains colon after http, browser is redirected to Microsoft corporation

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kristian Hellquist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

If an url doesn't contains colon after http, browser is redirected to Microsoft
corporation. A hack by pro-Microsoft engineers?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write an url without colon, ex http//www.linux.org
2. Hit return


Actual Results:  
Browser is redirected to Microsoft Corporation, but location still shows old url
ex http//www.linux.org

Expected Results:  
Page note found or made an automatic correction of the missing colon

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #0)
>A hack by pro-Microsoft engineers?

No, it's doing a Google 'i feel lucky' search for http.  The first result of
such a such is Microsoft.

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