Closed Bug 318957 Opened 20 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Firefox should interpret "c:\" in the URL bar using the file:// access protocol instead of performing Google search

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233402

People

(Reporter: unda_dogg, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 I enreted this into the address bar in ff1.5: "c:\Program Files\HighMAT CD Writing Wizard\1033\HighMAT_readme.htm" It sent me to http://c-span.org!!! Reproducible: Always Expected Results: It should open the file using the file:// access protocol
That's because Firefox performs an I'm Feeling Lucky search for "C".
I think it will be WONTFIX since you can't pass "c:\" to Google if it always autocompletes it with file://...
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: General → Location Bar and Autocomplete
Summary: This url resolves to c-span.org → Firefox should interpret "c:\" in the URL bar using the file:// access protocol instead of performing Google search
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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