Open Bug 1489853 Opened 6 years ago Updated 2 years ago

keyword.enabled not honored with trailing colon for about:

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
62 Branch
Type:
defect
Points:
3

Tracking

()

Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr102 --- wontfix
firefox108 --- wontfix
firefox109 --- wontfix
firefox110 --- fix-optional

People

(Reporter: wip.the.gruik, Unassigned)

References

(Regression)

Details

(Keywords: privacy, regression, Whiteboard: [snt-scrubbed][search-privacy])

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 Build ID: 20180830143136 Steps to reproduce: - start Firefox with a clean profile - open about:config - change browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false - change keyword.enabled to false - in the address bar, type any random single word followed with a colon without space e.g. "test:" or "about:" - press enter Actual results: the default search engine is used to search the typed word (without the colon) Expected results: the error page "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site." should have been displayed This is a regression from Firefox 61.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: privacy
Blocks: 1239708
Keywords: regression
Whiteboard: [fxsearch]
FYI this behaviour is also observed for about: when keyword.enabled=true, which likewise used to display the error page. Not implying that's incorrect though. The handling of URI schemes has changed a lot, e.g. keyword: stopped working some time ago. The behaviour may be more consistent this way.
(In reply to Paul from comment #1) > FYI this behaviour is also observed for about: when keyword.enabled=true, > which likewise used to display the error page. See bug 1239708 comment 232 and following for that part.
Priority: -- → P3
Points: --- → 3
Severity: normal → S3

Right now this only reproduces on about:, doesn't reproduce on test: or other random strings. We should investigate why about is special in this case, when keyword.enabled is false any string should always try to be handled as a url, never as a search.

Summary: keyword.enabled not honored with trailing colon → keyword.enabled not honored with trailing colon for about:
Whiteboard: [fxsearch] → [snt-scrubbed][search-privacy]

This also happens for "https:/", "https://", "http:/" or "http://"

Duplicate of this bug: 1792537
Duplicate of this bug: 1591175

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Field Value Source
Regressed by bug 1239708 bug 1591175

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Regressed by: 1239708

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status-firefox108: --- → affected
status-firefox109: --- → affected
status-firefox110: --- → affected
status-firefox-esr102: --- → affected
Flags: needinfo?(adw)
Flags: needinfo?(adw)

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1239708

status-firefox108: --- → affected
status-firefox109: --- → affected
status-firefox110: --- → affected
status-firefox-esr102: --- → affected
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