576989 - browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled no longer functions after 3.6.6 update

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[perpetualapprentice]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100701 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100701 Firefox/3.6.7

Type Google in the FF 3.6.6 URL bar w/ the setting 'browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled;true'. Hit return or enter. Browser reports "The host does not exist. Check the URL or try googling for it." Ditto for the words mozilla, ebay, any-and-every-site-you-can-think-of in the location bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type any known site name for autocomplete to take effect. For example, google.
2. Hit enter / return
Actual Results:  
browser reports "The host does not exist. Check the URL or try googling for it."

Expected Results:  
take me to the site specified as it always has in the past, i.e., http://www.google.com

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

not enough info to reproduce the bug, likely an add-on issue