Closed Bug 321308 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

takes me to www.miniboxgolf.com instead of www.mini-box.com

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Safari, iCab, and IE5 do NOT do this.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type mini-box into the address bar and press return.
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Actual Results:  
Firefox takes you to www.miniboxgolf.com after contacting google first.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should load page for www.mini-box.com

The same thing can be demonstrated by typing any of the following into the address bar of Firefox then into the address bar of Safari, iCab, or Internet Explorer 5 and see the results for yourself.

pumpkins, apples, squash, turnip and many more.

It appears that Firefox does not automatically prepend the www and append the .com to what is typed into the address bar like all the otehr Mac browsers do, instead it contacts google and then goes where google suggested based on the word(s) typed into the address bar. This can be very misleading since you are expecting to see a particular page and you get taken to a different page.
That's because Firefox performs a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search for that keyword. You can configure which search it uses by setting the pref. "keyword.URL".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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