Closed Bug 615039 Opened 14 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Add a preference to prevent dns lookup for a single word

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: tabutils+bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101126 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101126 Firefox/4.0b8pre

Currently, a single word in the location bar is treated as a host/url first, and a search will only be triggered after dns looking up fails. This usually feels slow. For most people, a single word is not necessary treated as a host/url. It would be better to have a hidden preference for this.

Reproducible: Always
And many ISPs/DNS providers hijack the failed dns looking up to their own search service. This is often quite annoying.
Severity: normal → major
Summary: Add a preference to prevent dns looking up for a single word in the location bar → Add a preference to prevent dns lookup for a single word
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Severity: major → normal
Yes, this is a major problem that I've been advocating for getting fixed for a while now. Since no one has picked it up, I'm going to fix it myself.
We are not planning to add a preference for this, but we are going to fix the underlying problem in bug 700474, so all users can benefit from it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Still a valid concern.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Nobody said it wasn't a valid concern, but that adding a pref isn't the right way to deal with it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago → 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
I cant understand why FF does not care. So many people complaining. Many people switching to chrome....
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