291463 - Typing just 'http' and hitting <enter> redirect to www.microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Joseph E. Glenn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3

This is repeatable on windows,linux,solaris(sparc).  

This is NOT in the mozilla suite, just firefox.  

There's no way I can figure this was a real 'feature'.  Frankly, I'd consider
any reference to the microsoft website a serious security risk;-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type 'http' (no quotes, no colon, no slashes) in the location bar and hit enter
2.Look in horror at the microsoft website that pops up!

Actual Results:  
I fainted after seeing that I was directed to microsoft's website.

Expected Results:  
Anything would have been better...

Find the guy/gal who got this in the code and lynch him/her.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Things that aren't URLs do a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search.  Microsoft is at
the top of:
  http://www.google.com/search?q=http

I think this is not a bug.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Invalid URLs are treated as "Internet Keywords", which in Firefox perform a
Google "I'm feeling lucky" search by default. Microsoft happens to be the first
result of a Google search for 'http' which leads to confusion with this feature.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/search

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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