458501 - Forced to type .com in address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 453288

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James Wileman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

If I go on facebook for example, normally I just type in facebook in the address bar but now if I don't add the extention I get this 

jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.propertiesfacebook

Can someone help as I have not got a clue what to do her

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type anything in the address bar without the extention on the end


Actual Results:  
I got this 

File Not Found

      

      
      
      

      
        
        

          

Firefox can't find the file at jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.propertiesfacebook.

        


        
        

    * Could the item have been renamed, removed, or relocated?
    * Is there a spelling, capitalization, or other typographical error in the address?
    * Do you have sufficient access permissions to the requested item?



        
        
      


      
      

Expected Results:  
gone to facebook

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Does the problem also occur in Firefox Safe Mode?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[James Wileman]

yes it does

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser-region/region.properties

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/profile/firefox.js#171

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/docshell/base/nsDefaultURIFixup.cpp#370

CCing bz and gavin, who have worked on this code.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I guess the "Fall back to a non-localized pref" branch isn't working as intended?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Uh...  we shouldn't be hitting the "non-localized pref" branch in this case, since the value of keyword.URL is in fact a properties file.

James, a few questions:

1)  Does keyword.URL have the value "chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties" (without the quotes) in your about:config?

2)  If you paste the string "chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties" (without the quotes) in your URL bar and hit enter, does the resulting file contain a line that starts with "keyword.URL="?  If so, what does the rest of that line look like?

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Bug 453288 has some of the answers to this, but it is the same issue so let's continue there.

Note that about:config should display the localized value from the properties file, not the url to the properties.