336468 - Design problem with the URL window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233541

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

This isn't properly speaking a "bug" because it's been designed to do this however... Firefox has one really annoying gremlin - it doesn't follow the precident set in the Mosaic/Netscape days for abbreviations defaulting to the .com site appropriate to the abreviation in its URL window - i.e type boats you'll get boats.com fine, but type houses and you'll get http://www.parliament.uk/ - wtf? - that's because it's basically taking whatever sits at the number one slot of google's search list... How long before that's an paid for advert? I can see with open source that there'd be nothing to stop this being an option in preferences - but why make this a dafault? - especially as there's a google window sitting right next to the URL window. Sooner or later one of the big boys who's paid a lot for their domain name is going to litigate because their links are effectively diverting to a rival I'd have thought?

Couple of forum debates about it at your forums and here too 

http://forums.maccentral.com/wwwthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=general&Number=838814&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=7



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

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