273173 - location bar's auto-search does not search with correct keywords

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Mark Janssen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041126 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041126 Firefox/1.0

The location bar's auto-search (the function that searches Google and goes to
the first result if an unknown website/search term is entered) has a bug. I
discovered this bug after reading http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20046.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Type this (without quotes) in the location bar: "http://http//www.campusplus.com/"

Actual Results:  
You'll go to Microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
Microsoft.com isn't the first result for either
"http://http//www.campusplus.com/" or "http//www.campusplus.com/". However, it
is the result for "http//" and "http". So, Firefox has some buggy search
mechanism - although I can understand it: it strips the http:// and strips
everything after the slashes.

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Mark Janssen]

Wow, that was fast ;-).