294502 - Firefox loads URLs with commas as Google searches.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310826

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[J. Theriault]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When clicking a link such as http://test,chicken firefox will perform a Google
search for "test, chicken" and automatically redirect you to the first "hit".
This is unexpected behavior and could lead to tricking users to webpages and
malware.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a URL involving a comma such as http://test,chicken in the address bar
and visit.
or
2. Click such a link in an external application.

Actual Results:  
Firefox loads a Google search of the string (without the http://) and
automatically visits the first link.

Expected Results:  
The browser should instead merely present the search results or merely present
an error (without disabling the ability as it is possible to have a webserver
requireing commas in the URL in the local network without any dots in the
address, for example)

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

workaround: set "keyword.enabled" to FALSE in about:config



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

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Actually a dup of bug 310826.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

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