765201 - Text entry revealed to Google after there are indications of URL entry rather than search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 774517

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) (not reading bugmail until 2026-07-27)]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Type http://f in the location bar.
2) Type mozilla.org/ in the location bar.

Actual results:
Even after entering an obvious part of a URL (e.g. containing "http://", "." or "/"), the text being entered is still revealed to a third-party (Google).

Expected results:
As soon as there's a sign that the user is entering the URL instead of a search keyword, expected Firefox to stop revealing keystrokes to Google.

Comment 1

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Would something as naive as

/[./]/.test(...)

catch all the cases (given that '/' implicitly catches 'http://')? Would it catch anything it shouldn't?

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Sorry, I didn't see this bug earlier.  Forward-duping to bug 774517 which has a patch.

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) (not reading bugmail until 2026-07-27)]

(In reply to Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath] from comment #1)
> Would something as naive as
> 
> /[./]/.test(...)
> 
> catch all the cases (given that '/' implicitly catches 'http://')? Would it
> catch anything it shouldn't?

It would catch strings with spaces. The patch in the bug this got duplicated against is more elaborate on that point.