Closed
Bug 694184
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Firefox Location Bar Incorrectly Assumes Search Term
Categories
(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 693530
People
(Reporter: tom, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238
Steps to reproduce:
Resubmitted the current URL by selecting the address bar and pressing the "Enter" key.
The URL was: http://localhost/Other/Scripts/Word%20Finder.php
Actual results:
Firefox fell back to performing a Google Search instead of loading the URL.
Expected results:
Firefox should have loaded the URL in the location bar.
The problem is caused by two separate Firefox behaviors. The first behavior is that Firefox replaces encoded characters (e.g. %20) with the actual characters they represent (e.g [space]). This has already been filed as a bug report by others for various other reasons.
The second behavior is that firefox assumes anything with a space character to be an invalid URL, and thus it assumes it must be a search phrase.
Combine the above behaviors and you get the problem I'm referring to. When I visited the page "http://localhost/Other/Scripts/Word%20Finder.php", Firefox replaced the encoded space character (%20) with an actual space, making the URL in the location bar appear as "localhost/Other/Scripts/Word Finder.php". Notice how the http:// prefix has been stripped, and the encoded space character (%20) has been replaced with an actual space character. Upon re-submitting the URL, Firefox now assumes the URL "localhost/Other/Scripts/Word Finder.php" is a search term.
Firefox is basically shooting itself in the foot with the end user being the one that suffers. This is one of the main reasons why I really disliking URL re-writing by web browsers; it introduces a lot of bugs and hinders usability by putting invalid characters in URL representations, like the space character, which causes problems with copy/paste and other built-in functions that depend on a valid URL.
There are a few ways this problem could be fixed, but I'd personally like to see Firefox's URL manipulation dropped, so URL's like "http://localhost/Other/Scripts/Word%20Finder.php" remain unchanged, without any string replacements or prefix removal.
Comment 1•13 years ago
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Disable the keyword search feature http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Location%20bar%20search or use a complete domain with TLD "localhost./test a"
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Comment 2•13 years ago
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Thanks for the workaround, but I hope your not proposing that as an acceptable solution? There's a fundamental problem here regarding ambiguities in the keyword search feature and the manipulation of the URL in the location bar which really need to be resolved. Do you not agree?
Updated•13 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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