761774 - "New Tab" not to display plain url redirects

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 737358

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[dashesy]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601045813

Steps to reproduce:

The `new tab' feature is great and this is a minor enhancement. 
I frequently use a redirect from the search bar (Ctrl+k) to go to the first search result; similar to Google's feeling lucky but it is called feeling ducky
An example URL is "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=\lwn"


Actual results:

The redirect URL should not appear in the most frequently visited page (Ctrl+T), as it is just a blank screen, and the actual website already shows up there just fine.


Expected results:

Not to show a blank redirect webpage.

Comment 1

[Corey Ford [:coyotebush]]

I suppose it's possible that <meta> redirects as DDG seems to use are be a little harder than HTTP 3xx here.