273159 - On keyword-search failure, Firefox loses what I type into the address bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 157004

(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

If I type a search query into the address bar, and it happens to contain
periods, Firefox reports an error. But I can't correct what I typed because
Firefox replaces it. I get annoyed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type into the address bar: .net tutorial
2. Firefox gives me an error
3. I want to correct the error by removing the ".", but...
Actual Results:  
Firefox replaces what I typed with
chrome://global/content/netError.xhtml?e=malformedURI&u=.net%20tutorial&d=The%20URL%20is%20not%20valid%20and%20cannot%20be%20loaded.

Expected Results:  
Leave what I typed so I can correct it.

Comment 1

[David P James]

Sigh

You've set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to "true" from its default of
"false". Change it back in about:config if you don't want this kind of error page.

--> Invalid

Comment 2

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

Actually the bug is valid, the url should remain, even if using error pages
isn't supported fully at the moment.

Comment 3

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157004 ***

Comment 4

[David P James]

I suppose so but that's why the feature is off by default at the moment.