299910 - Forgetting the : in http:// brings you to Microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[astrowob]

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 typing http//anyadress.com (forgetting the : or because of a webmaster
error in a link) it brings you to Microsoft.com!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ in your location bar
Actual Results:  
It brings you to Microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
Brings up an error page or the error in the adress is corrected.

Is it a conspiracy?

Comment 1

[astrowob]

I meant https//bugzilla.mozilla.org/ for the link

Comment 2

[astrowob]

Well, http//bugzilla.mozilla.org/ brings you to Microsoft.com and
https//bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (with the S) to Paypal.com ....

Comment 3

[ggelinas]

http//mozilla.com bring me at Le Monde newspaper site(!!) {http://www.lemonde.fr/}
as for https//mozilla.com bring me at https://adwords.google.com/select/... 
Google???

Comment 4

[astrowob]

I just found out that it simply gives the first result for http or https in
Google for whatever langage you use (English for me French for lemonde.fr) but
still, why does http//www.mozilla.com should bring you to Microsoft? is it not
counter-productive?

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

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