472423 - ww.mozilla.org is not a DOMAIN error but an ADDRESS error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Graveyard :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[ionix18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

visiting an address without DNS gave an address not found error as expected.
What was unexpected was the following help:
Did you make a mistake when typing the domain? (e.g. "ww.mozilla.org" instead of "www.mozilla.org")

the domain is mozilla.org and the address is ww.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter an address without a proper DNS
2. Wait for the error message
3. ???
4. Profit!
Actual Results:  
Did you make a mistake when typing the domain? (e.g. "ww.mozilla.org" instead of "www.mozilla.org")

Expected Results:  
Did you make a mistake when typing the address? (e.g. "ww.mozilla.org" instead of "www.mozilla.org")

n/a

Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

The portion of the URL in question is the domain. www.mozilla.org is a domain name same as mozilla.org is.. (3rd level, to be exact.) Since .org is top-level, mozilla.org would be second, and so on. The text is correct.