851786 - http://example/index.html is treated differently, depending on left click or middle click.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

When you open this link

http://example/mozilla.html

with left click, the browser's tab goes to the error page (Server not found).

When you middle-click the page, the browser open a new tab, redirecting it to

http://www.iana.org/domains/example

I think either result will do, but they should be consistent.


The actual reason of this would be that the browser appends ".com" to "example" only when the browser opened it as a new tab. Therefore this seems URL Fixup's bug.