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Steps to reproduce:

I bookmarked the page "about:config".

Actual results:

When typing "config" into the search bar it will about complete to "about:config/" (with a slash at the end).

This page does not exist.

Expected results:

Autocomplete to "about:config" with the slash.

FYI the same thing happens with "about:preferences" as well.

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You don't need to bookmark about: pages for autofill to work, it does regardless, just type "about:c"

This is similar to Bug 1502666 but not a straight dupe, I honestly think it's wrong that typing "config" we try to autofill "about:config", and that's likely due to when we started trimming any protocol instead of just http/https

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #3)

You don't need to bookmark about: pages for autofill to work, it does regardless, just type "about:c"

This is similar to Bug 1502666 but not a straight dupe, I honestly think it's wrong that typing "config" we try to autofill "about:config", and that's likely due to when we started trimming any protocol instead of just http/https

Given the other bug is 2 years old, I assume this is not gonna be fixed anytime soon?

Is there any workaround? I created the bookmark so I can quickly enter preferences or config.

In Chrome I can just type "sett <Tab> <Enter>" or "flag <Tab> <Enter>" which is quite a bit faster than "about:pref <Enter>" or "about:con <Enter>".

There is no straight shortcut to about:config, that's not a page that one would need to access daily usually. You could assign a keyword to your bookmark like "conf", and then just "conf+Enter", but I can't tell you how long that will work, hopefully in the meanwhile this will be fixed.