871519 - Ctrl + Enter doesn't work well when the string in the URL bar contains a dot

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688395

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130512 Firefox/22.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130512 Firefox/23.0

STR:
1. Launch FF 21 RC build 4 with a clean profile.
2. Enter "mail.yahoo" in the location bar and press ctrl + enter.

Actual result:
"Server not found" page is displayed, URL is "http://www.mail.yahoo/".

Expected result:
Yahoo login page is displayed, URL is "http://www.mail.yahoo.com/".

Notes:
1. If you repeate step 2 for "yahoo", the Yahoo homepage is displayed.
2. Reproducible with FF 21 RC build 4 (Build ID: 20130512144307), latest Aurora (Build ID: 20130512004015), latest Nightly (Build ID: 20130512030908).

Comment 1

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

This issue is a regression - currently working on a regression range.

Comment 2

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Last good nightly: 2011-08-20
First bad nightly: 2011-08-21

Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=6009974c1e1c&tochange=6dc468c41136

Comment 3

[u279076]

Looks like this is a regression introduced in Firefox 9 by Dao's patch for bug 673528. Nominating for tracking 22, 23, 24, but not 21 since this has existed for quite a while with little to no noise.