864141 - URL auto-complete will redirect to unexpected urls

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 769994

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

As background to the bug, https://www.boston.com has an invalid certificate, and therefore won't load.  However, 'https://boston.com' works (somewhat), and both non-https versions work properly.

When I type in 'boston.com' into the URL bar, the following things happen:

- The first entry in the dropdown is 'https://www.boston.com' (the site worked in the past).
- The location bar auto-completes to 'boston.com/' (note trailing '/')

Then, if I hit Enter, it loads 'https://www.boston.com', which fails.  There is no indication in the location bar that this page will be loaded. In fact, there are two differences from the URL that auto-complete shows: the 'https' and the 'www'. 

If I type '/' and then hit Enter, or delete the autocompleted '/', it correctly loads 'http://boston.com'.

Comment 1

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

This happens both with Nightly (23) and Release (20).