673946 - Correct common misspellings of .com

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

According to our own Chris Finke:

> The top 17 TLD typos are all variations of .com. 
> In order of frequency:

> .com\, .ocm, .con, .cmo, .copm, .xom, ".com,", 
> .vom, .comn, .com', ".co,", .comj, .coim, .cpm, 
> .colm, .conm, and .coom.

We should correct these just like we attempt to fix some other common URL entry mistakes, seeing as none of these are valid TLDs — although they may become so in the future, but we can keep tabs on that.

Comment 1

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

"our own" meaning "part of our community", sorry about the imprecision. :)

Comment 2

[Christopher Finke]

Source: http://www.chrisfinke.com/2011/07/25/what-do-people-type-in-the-address-bar/

Comment 3

[Notlost]

Alright, I positively love this feature. I type .cpm so much....

And to top it off, I've got a domain hijacker search engine.

Comment 4

[Alex Willmer]

Such typos are at least partially covered. At least .vom, .xom, .cpm, and .prg are corrected. I presume by https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/ed2fc6bdcef6fe27b5588aa5d5891f6792708d09/docshell/base/URIFixup.jsm#683-698. I happened to stumble on the behaviour in Firefox desktop 84.0.2 on Linux https://twitter.com/moreati/status/1353306016713240576