User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140506152807 Steps to reproduce: Open Firefox. Type os.path in the address bar. Hit enter. Actual results: Firefox automaticaly goes to the website http://www.os.path/ whitch of course doesn't exists. Expected results: Firefox should go to google (or any other search engine) and look for the term "os.path" Note that if yout type "os.path" with quotes in the adressbar it works.

Confirming the issue on Mac OSX 10.9.2 and Windows 7 64bit using latest Nightly 33.0a1 (buildID: 20140701030202). When I type os.path in the address bar, the www.os.path (with "Firefox can't find the server at www.os.path") page is displayed. Only if I type "os.path" (with quotes), Firefox go to google and look for the term "os.path".

This is very annoying for searching libraries for programming, when the language in question uses dots for member access. For example: Array.splice (javascript) Path.GetExtension (.NET) In the past, these would go to the search page; now they come up with the Server not found page shown in the attachment I uploaded. "can't find www.array.splice"

Gijs, IIRC you worked on something related; do you happen to know if this is a dupe, or the expected behavior?

(In reply to Jeb Rosen from comment #2) > In the past, these would go to the search page I don't think this is true. I think this has never "worked" right. I just checked on builds as far back as 2012, and they are broken, too.