Open Bug 664869 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Apostrophes added to domain names should be ignored.

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
enhancement
Points:
3

Tracking

()

Status:
REOPENED

People

(Reporter: ajhoskinguk, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: papercut, ux-error-recovery)

As apostrophes can't exist with in domain names I'm suggesting that Firefox should automatically either ignore them or automatically remove them, this would help those people who add the apostrophe to the URL because it is a company that has an apostrophe in its name but not in their web address as that's not possible, if something can't exist in a domain name then FF should just ignore it, at least in this case. Obviously they can exist later in addresses, but this bug is specifically for the domain part of the address only. www.mcdonald's.com
Component: Toolbars → Location Bar
QA Contact: toolbars → location.bar
This would be great for the times I accidentally hit the apostrophe key on my way to the Enter key. The keys are like right next to each other.
Keywords: ux-error-recovery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16529653 This is exactly why I filed this bug.
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.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
Blocks: 1425024
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Priority: -- → P5
Resolution: INACTIVE → ---
Keywords: papercut
Points: --- → 3
Severity: normal → S3
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