Closed Bug 1631058 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

If you type "etc/" in the URL bar you will be forwarded to "http://www.etc.com/".

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
75 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180329

People

(Reporter: OneZeroByte, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

Type "etc/", "/etc/" or for example "/etc/abcdef" in the URL bar.

Actual results:

You will be forewardet to "http://www.etc.com/"

Expected results:

The best way would have been to land on the page "https://etc/" (as with "google/")

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar

Resetting severity to default of --.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

www.etc.com should only be tried after etc/ failed, this happens in the docshell, we try etc/ first, if it fails we try to fixup adding browser.fixup.alternate.prefix and browser.fixup.alternate.suffix
There is likely another bug about defaulting to https...

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