973383 - Single word in location bar not redirected to keyword.URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[jn]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140207 Firefox/24.0 Iceweasel/24.3.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20140209162632

Steps to reproduce:

This issue seems to come up more often in forums in recent months:
Entering a single word in the location bar does not lead to the word being searched in the engine specified in keyword.URL.

To reproduce, type "jklsdf" in the location bar.



Actual results:

FF now places the string "http://jklsdf/" in the location bar, which results in an empty page (source of page is also empty).


This happens on Linux as well as Windows and does not depend on DNS, as this happens at computers at my workplace as well as with different machines at home.


Expected results:

The string entered should instead have been searched via the engine provided in keyword.URL.

I think there's some underlying design decision that has to be fixed, as alterate browsers like Chromium and Opera do not have this problem. 

How can I help diagnosing this further?

Comment 1

[Manish Goregaokar [:manishearth]]

Works for me on yesterday's Nightly. (I'll wait for some others to look at it before marking as WFM).

Maybe we should write a mochitest for this behavior.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Cannot reproduce on Mac Nightly 2014-02-15.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Reporter: which version of Firefox are you using? Your UA string suggests you're using Iceweasel 24 Nightly, which is a long way behind current Release 27, let alone Nightly 30. It's possible you're seeing an old and fixed regression.

Comment 4

[Manish Goregaokar [:manishearth]]

Norepro on FF 23 on Ubuntu. (Yes, I need to update it. Someday.)

Comment 5

[jn]

Updated to Iceweasel 27.0 from mozilla.debian.net, issue remains.
Created a new profile just to be sure, no luck.
Will test again tomorrow at work using Win 7 / FF 27.

I'm sure this worked before, so it might well be a regression.
Any other suggestions or data needed to further diagnose this?

Comment 6

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

The data from about:support would probably be useful.

Comment 7

[jn]

Data from about:support

Allgemeine Informationen
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Name: Iceweasel
Version: 27.0
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Wichtige modifizierte Einstellungen
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Comment 8

[jn]

Additional information, since in case that matters: I don't use a proxy

Comment 9

[bug.zilla]

Could this be linked to the network.dns.ignoreHostonly pref?

Also, is this a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680869

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Keyword.URL was removed in Firefox 23.  The correct behaviour is to search using the currently selected engine if DNS doesn't return.  There's bug 680869 as well, but wouldn't be an issue on Linux AIUI.

Comment 11

[jn]

Bug no longer present in 30.0, closing.

Comment 12

[isthistakenaswell]

Ugh. This might not be a "bug" technically speaking, but if you configured the url search bar to make the DNS request ONLY if a dot is present, you'd save millions of man-hours annually. Most people simply don't notice.

Comment 13

[Manish Goregaokar [:manishearth]]

(In reply to isthistakenaswell from comment #12)
> Ugh. This might not be a "bug" technically speaking, but if you configured
> the url search bar to make the DNS request ONLY if a dot is present, you'd
> save millions of man-hours annually. Most people simply don't notice.

Technically, http://word/ *can* be a valid URL. New TLDs are easily bought these days (at a high price though), and the owner is free to use the plain http://tld/ if they want.

Comment 14

[isthistakenaswell]

How much traffic do these URLs account for? 10^-6 total? 10^-9 total? Probably much less. Just make those who don't use .tld URLs bother typing http://. It's something that simply reduces functionality without a real reason.

Comment 15

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

There's a _lot_ of intranet-type usage (domain suffix).  The problem is not doing the lookup, it's serializing it.  I think bug 972452 comment 3 is the right answer.  This bug is not that bug.