778399 - When there is a hash symbol, #, in the address bar, simply clicking on the address bar and pressing enter does not load the page.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P2)

Description

[winstonhowes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

I put a hash symbol, #, in the address bar and pressed enter.


Actual results:

The page did not load, nor was the request for the page to load fired, so in short nothing happened.


Expected results:

The page should have loaded.

Comment 1

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

If you enter # into the url and press enter, it would load an error with url "http:///#".  Since # is not a valid, it thinks the current behavior is correct.

Comment 2

[winhowes]

That indeed may load an error.  I was referring more to something like http://www.example.com/#foo.

Comment 3

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

I think this is an intended behavior.

For example
1) Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
2) Then append '#Attributes' to the address bar, it would go to that section.  The same thing happens when you click on a link which contains #.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Yes, this is intended - just adding # to the end of the URL performs anchor-navigation on the current page, and changing that would likely break websites.

Comment 6

[DJiK]

Your arguments are right, they just don't have any link with the present bug! (which is a duplicate of bug 673159, with good explanations, and not the opposite).