290289 - Clicking a broken link performs Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky!" search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310826

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vesa Piittinen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi-FI; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi-FI; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2

When clicking a broken link that begins with http://, Firefox performs a "I'm
Feeling Lucky!" search. This shouldn't happen as links are meant to be a
pointers to elsewhere on the web, not search keywords to Google. An error page
should be displayed instead. This bug causes a lot of confusion to inexperienced
computer users.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. find or make a page with a broken link that begins with http://
2. click the link
Actual Results:  
A Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky!" was performed and the webpage was shown that
matches the keywords.

Expected Results:  
Shown an error page of a malformed link.

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

i think its the same like 231720

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

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

no, it's bug 233541

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233541 ***

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

No, it's a dup of bug 310826 ;)

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310826 ***