700941 - DNS can hijack search results, and single words behave the wrong way

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 701374

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Attachment: Comcast hijacking my search result

I think this bug exists on desktop too (CCing Frank Yan since he has talked about fixing this as part of the work we're doing on search there).

- When typing a phrase into the search box on Fennec, I sometimes get hijacked to the Comcast search page

- If I enter a single word like "testing", we automatically forward to testing.com. This is inconsistent with desktop behavior (which always does a search), and breaks the predictability of what will happen if you enter a single word as a search phrase.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Not sure what we can do here process is close to
* Check Firefox internal DNS cache
* Ask system DNS service about the item
* System DNS checks its local cache
* System queries remote DNS servers
* ISP returns bogus search result instead of the correct DNS error
* this shortcuts our keyword.url fallback

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> This is inconsistent with desktop behavior (which always does a search)

That's a matter of default preferences, no?  There are various preferences that control the exact URI fixup behavior...  That has nothing to do with networking; seems like a pure Fennec issue.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

You are right boris totally misread this bug. ignore comment 1

Comment 4

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #2)
> > This is inconsistent with desktop behavior (which always does a search)
> 
> That's a matter of default preferences, no?  There are various preferences
> that control the exact URI fixup behavior...  That has nothing to do with
> networking; seems like a pure Fennec issue.

Yeah, I'm sure there's a pref that will do something different — just pointing out that it's not doing the same by default as the desktop version is doing right now.

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Brian - Let's figure out what we need to do to make this work like desktop

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

bug 701374 is fixing this now