773212 - Middle button past url don't work unless you have http/https in the url

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[J.O. Aho]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120613 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1
Build ID: 20120613233331

Steps to reproduce:

Upgrade to Firefox 13
double clicked on a domain name (text gets marked) for example: www.linux.org
paste the domain name in a firefox 13 tab


Actual results:

nothing


Expected results:

The website with the domain name should be opened

Comment 1

[J.O. Aho]

Following options are enabled:

middlemouse.contentLoadURL true
middlemouse.openNewWindow true
middlemouse.paste true

If repeating the process, but instead having http://www.linux.org, then the page loads.
It's a quite big drawback to have to edit the clipboard content to make FireFox to work with contentLoadURL, while in Seamonkey this works flawlessly.

Comment 2

[J.O. Aho]

Did post this bug with my Seamonkey, so the UA ain't correct for the browser.

My FireFox has the following UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0

Comment 3

[ps]

I spent hour trying to realize which add-on screw it up and surprisngly its new firefox feature :(

It is clear other people have the same problem, cf http://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/web/firefox4-content-load.html , including patch:

--- browser.js.sav      2011-05-07 16:40:03.672540242 -0700
+++ omni/chrome/browser/content/browser/browser.js      2011-05-08 16:29:28.943313984 -0700
@@ -10597,12 +10597,10 @@
   clipboard.replace(/\s*\n\s*/g, "");
 
   let url = getShortcutOrURI(clipboard);
-  try {
-    makeURI(url);
-  } catch (ex) {
-    // Not a valid URI.
-    return;
-  }
+  var URIFixup = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/docshell/urifixup;1"]
+                           .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIURIFixup);
+  url = URIFixup.createFixupURI(url, 1).spec;
+  // 1 is FIXUP_FLAG_ALLOW_KEYWORD_LOOKUP
 
   try {
     addToUrlbarHistory(url);

Comment 4

[Dmitry Bolkhovityanov]

Why this bug is still UNCONFIRMED?
It is clearly a one more duplicate of the notorious bug 667340.