Closed Bug 693251 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Ctrl+Enter does not prepend/append "www." and ".com" to the address field if there is a . (period) already in the address as of 7.0.1

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
7 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688395

People

(Reporter: gannon, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 Build ID: 20110928134238 Steps to reproduce: 1. entered address field "reddit" and pressed ctrl+enter. 2. entered address field "kindle.reddit" and pressed ctrl+enter Actual results: 1. after pressing ctrl+enter, address fills "www.reddit.com" and loads site 2. after pressing ctrl+enter address does not fill, and search page appears searching for "kindle.reddit" Expected results: 1. functionality is correct 2. entering address "kindle.reddit" and pressing ctrl+enter should auto fill address to "www.kindle.reddit.com" and load website page.
Well, Firefox probably assumes .reddit is the toplevel domain. And with recent changes to rules of domain registration, any string will be allowed as a top level domain. So this may very well be a valid domain. I don't think developers will change FF to the behavior you want.
Component: General → Location Bar
QA Contact: general → location.bar
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
"I don't think developers will change FF to the behavior you want." IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOREVER! YOU BROKE IT WITH FF7!!! Jesus guys, I ask very little from this browser: loading pages correctly, functional tabs, bookmarks & passwords, and all my keyboard shortcuts. I literally don't use anything else, so you have just broken 25% of my browser. I don't even care any more. Posted from my fresh install of Google Chrome.
aceman: "I don't think developers will change FF to the behavior you want." zerkeybox: "IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOREVER! YOU BROKE IT WITH FF7!!!" Zerkeybox is correct. The "Expected Results" behavior I posted is exactly how Firefox has, as far as I know, always worked. I was a bit surprised when it didn't function that way, as I use this exact shortcut nearly every time I enter an address into the address field in Firefox. I've been using Firefox since about 2.5 or 2.6, maybe even before that. It's always worked this way.
By the way, as I noted in the comments of 688395, every other modern browser supports this functionality, as has Firefox up until version 7. I don't understand the arbitrary removal of this feature, nor the ardent stance of "RESOLVED WONTFIX" on 688395.
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