791155 - gcc.gnu.org loads ftp://gcc.gnu.org occasionally.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 769348

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Marty Rosenberg [:mjrosenb]]

I've noticed when I am browsing, I will type in gcc.gnu.org, and firefox will take me to ftp://gcc.gnu.org, which is almost never what I want.  Mare annoyingly, after this happens, explicitly typing in http://gcc.gnu.org *still* takes me to ftp://gcc.gnu.org.  It is only when I explicitly click on the "http://gcc.gnu.org" entry in the list of auto-completions that I actually get to the site I'm trying to go to.
I'm using http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9677eb19a6a5
revision is a few days old at this point, but barring a crash, I'll keep this instance running for a while longer, in case any more information is needed.

Comment 1

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

I believe this is due to inline autocomplete stripping the protocol, and blindly using the protocol from the autocompleted URL - even if the protocol was explicitly typed in.