776735 - Parts of URL are reduplicated when entering special characters manually

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[wolpi.kronf]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Me and another user of FF 14.0.1 entered a URL containing special characters (such as äöüß) manually into the adress bar an pressed enter. This does not happen when following a link or using the arrow-button in the adress bar instead of enter.
Additionally, this does not happen at the first time, but only if you are already on any page of the same website.


Actual results:

Parts of the URL are reduplicated at the beginning, e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grün becomes http://de.wide.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grün. For every special character, 5 symbols are reduplicated at the beginning.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This only happens for me if I enter the URL without the "http:" at the start; if I enter it with "http:" at the start then it's fine.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This may be related to bug 546342, and probably doesn't need to be security-sensitive, but I'm not quite ready to unhide it.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.