273155 - Enhancing "Page load error" page by providing search results underneath

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 482874

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Aquino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

Often users will simply type their search query into the address bar. If this
query contains periods (e.g. "999.999% uptime"), they will get an error message.
How about anticipating their needs by putting Google search results underneath
the error message. Example:

Invalid Address Error - The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
=================
Results 1-5 of about 154 for '999.999% uptime'

Uptime (1) - celebrating 1 billion seconds - ... Uptime (1) - celebrating 1
billion seconds by Claus Sørensen on Wednesday - (dot.kde.org) Cached Similar pages

VLT 4000 VT Engineering Data – Parameter Listings - ... value of user-defined
readout .....100.00 .....0 - 999.999,99 .....Yes ... - () Cached Similar pages

SecurePoint - Linux IPSEC (FreeS/WAN) mailing list archive - ... encap:IPIP
Tunnel HWaddr inet addr:200.50.999.999 Mask:255.255 ... ipaddress + hostname -
() Cached Similar pages

INSTRUCTIONS MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY ... - INSTRUCTIONS
MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY GENERATOR ... The delay - ()
Cached Similar pages

About Me - ... no te informara que es un clones Ejemplo: /os trigger add
999.999.999.999 50 /os - () Cached Similar pages

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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Type into the address bar: 999.999% uptime
Actual Results:  
Get this error message:

Invalid Address Error

The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.

Expected Results:  
Google search results:

Results 1-5 of about 154 for '999.999% uptime'

Uptime (1) - celebrating 1 billion seconds - ... Uptime (1) - celebrating 1
billion seconds by Claus Sørensen on Wednesday - (dot.kde.org) Cached Similar pages

VLT 4000 VT Engineering Data – Parameter Listings - ... value of user-defined
readout .....100.00 .....0 - 999.999,99 .....Yes ... - () Cached Similar pages

SecurePoint - Linux IPSEC (FreeS/WAN) mailing list archive - ... encap:IPIP
Tunnel HWaddr inet addr:200.50.999.999 Mask:255.255 ... ipaddress + hostname -
() Cached Similar pages

INSTRUCTIONS MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY ... - INSTRUCTIONS
MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY GENERATOR ... The delay - ()
Cached Similar pages

About Me - ... no te informara que es un clones Ejemplo: /os trigger add
999.999.999.999 50 /os - () Cached Similar pages

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Comment 1

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

That is a very good idea. Having different behaviour based on a period in the
URL isn't that sensible. I've always found firefox's alert windows on an
incorrect or unreachable URL to be its number-one most annoying feature.

P.s. Anyone who actually offers 999.999% uptime on anything is probably lying.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041219
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

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Comment 3

[John Vandenberg]

The reporters description is still current in Firefox 1.5.

I would like to point out that a search on only '999.999%' causes Firefox 1.5 to
perform a hostname lookup on 999.999%.  I think this is a bug, because a percent
sign is not a valid character for a hostname.

Actual results:
Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.999.999%.
[and three suggestions for fixing the problem are shown]

Comment 4

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 5

[David P James]

Mass edit: Setting correct QA for location bar/autocomplete. My bad. I forgot I had once been Autocomplete QA too. Hmm, why can't I just set the QA of bugs to the default QA of the component in a mass edit rather than having to do it manually...?

Comment 6

[Jonathan Aquino]

This seems to be fixed in Firefox 2. When I enter "999.999% uptime" into the address bar, I am taken to Google search results.

Comment 7

[John Vandenberg]

Strings consisting of two periods and numbers, like 22.333.44, still trigger a DNS lookup.

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

I think the best approach here is bug 482874
Making a search would have various implications, from action slowdown due to unwanted network access to privacy.