Closed Bug 756859 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

localhost should be exempt from www. + .com auto-decoration

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
13 Branch
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 150025

People

(Reporter: mikko, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0 Build ID: 20120508180640 Steps to reproduce: Often developers run a local web server in address+port locahost:X Actual results: When you type in this address like http://localhost:8080 and the server is down you are taken to www.localhost.com:8080 Expected results: localhost is a special hostname. People accessing localhost as directly typed address never have the use case where they should go to www.localhost.com. Thus, auto-completion behavior of www. and .com messes up developer workflow: If possible Firefox should report normal "server down" error instead, as for developers the server is often simply crashed.
Component: Untriaged → Location Bar
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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