358538 - type ieee.org and Ctrl+Enter results in ieee.org.com

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Anubhav Malhotra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061028 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061028 Minefield/3.0a1

i typed ieee.org and then pressed Ctrl + Enter that took me to ieee.org.com
though it is known that Ctrl+Enter stands for .com but in this case browser could identify the extension mention by checking after the period(.) operator and not add .com

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The browser should have taken to ieee.org rather than ieee.org.com

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, no, it's certainly not that simple, if it's fixable at all: ctrl+enter doesn't mean "add .com" but "add whatever is in the pref browser.fixup.alternate.suffix" and if you look at attachment 241327 [details] you'll see that there are quite a few parts of the world where someone might want to make their suffix something like ".in" and type "foo.org+ctrl+enter" to get foo.org.in.

Comment 2

[Aaron Racine]

Along the lines of comment #1, this behavior seems like it's by design.  Also, for what it's worth, if you type in: http://ieee.org and hit control-enter, it doesn't add a suffix.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This "bug" is by design and, thus INVALID (or maybe WONTFIX, but I like INVALID better).