273157 - If user types spaces into address bar, do search instead of treating as URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 261608

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

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

If the user types spaces into the address bar, we know that she is doing a
search. So perform a search (e.g. Google) instead of treating it as a URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Type ".net tutorial" into address bar
Actual Results:  
Error message:

Invalid Address Error

The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.

Expected Results:  
Search results for ".net tutorial"

Comment 1

[David P James]

Can't say I understand why one would want to use the url bar for searches when
there exists a search bar for that purpose but anyway...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245597 ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is about the period. When a string includes the period, it's treated as a
URL. A fix was just checked in and should be in the next nightlies.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261608 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Kowalski]

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