298945 - if "m" left off .com in URL, browser hangs and does not come back

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Bert Means]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If any website that ends in ".com" is typed in the address bar but the "m" is
left off, the browser hangs and has to be terminated through task manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type www.msn.co (without the "m")
2. Hit Enter
3.

Actual Results:  
Browser hangs and does not come back.

Expected Results:  
Displayed a page saying "URL not found"

Comment 1

[John Benes]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050627
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062710 (Beast)

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050627
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062705

WFM

I get the "Page not Found" URL load error page (network error pages enabled)

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050627
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062705

WFM; same error as Jaime.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050627
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062711

WFM

with browser.xul.error_pages.enabled = true (default)