523132 - If search word like a part of URI character strings from location bar, search does not function properly

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Tetsuharu OHZEKI [:tetsuharu] (UTC+9)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ja; rv:1.9.2b2pre) Gecko/20091018 Namoroka/3.6b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ja; rv:1.9.2b2pre) Gecko/20091018 Namoroka/3.6b2pre

If you focus on Location bar, delete any text that's in it, type ".NET" like a part of URI character strings and press enter.

You will not get search result page for ".NET". But You get error page for "Firefox can't find the server at www..net."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click in Location bar.
2. delete any text that's in it.
3. Type ".NET".
4. Press enter.
Actual Results:  
You get error page for "Firefox can't find the server at www..net."

Expected Results:  
You should get search result page for ".NET".

Comment 1

[A Hunt]

I can confirm this on FF 3.5. I also have a related issue where having a search where the first word ends with a colon, instead of searching, I get a protocol error, i.e. if I type the following (highly contrived) example in the location bar:
games: the best
I am told in a dialog box:
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (games) isn't associated with any program.

Instead FF should, if it finds an invalid protocol, do a web search with the term, instead of throwing an error, and similarly for an invalid web address, as above.

Comment 2

[alex_mayorga]

I can confirm both comment #0 and comment #1 on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110202 Firefox/4.0b11pre ID:20110202030356

Not sure if this is a real bug as if you meant to search you should use the "search bar" not the "location bar" IMHO.

Comment 4

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Still and issue with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20111223 Firefox/12.0a1 ID:20111223032107

Comment 5

[Praveenkumar[:speaker]]

I agree with alex_mayorga he is correct with his idea

Comment 6

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

(In reply to Tetsuharu OHZEKI [UTC+9] from comment #0)

> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Click in Location bar.
> 2. delete any text that's in it.
> 3. Type ".NET".
> 4. Press enter.
> Actual Results:  
> You get error page for "Firefox can't find the server at www..net."
> 
> Expected Results:  
> You should get search result page for ".NET".

This is WFM against Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 ID:20150108202552 CSet: 32e36869f84a

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.