Closed Bug 1714858 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Separate Search Bar Mode Broken

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
Firefox 89
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1713827

People

(Reporter: christoph, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Have Firefox auto-upgrade to 89 while preferences were set to have a separate search bar.

  2. Go to the Firefox standard home page.

  3. Enter "foo" into the search bar on the home page.

  4. Press enter to start the search

Actual results:

  1. The address bar reads "Mit ... suchen oder Adresse eingeben" (search with ... or enter address).

  2. Firefox unconditionally copies "foo" into the address bar.

  3. Firefox complains that it can't find "https:/foo".

Expected results:

  1. The address bar should read just "Adresse eingeben" (enter address).

  2. Firefox should copy "foo" into the search bar because it is not a valid internet address (and also because it is the expected behavior from previous versions; see below).

  3. Firefox should run my selected search engine to seatch for "foo".

As a matter of fact, the change of behavior constitutes a SERIOUS security hazard. I have a habit of researching internet addresses on the web before actually visiting them if I find anything fishy about it. As I have become accustomed to using the home page search field as a pure search field, with this change in behavior I WILL find myself in situations where out of habit I will inadvertently enter such addresses into what is now the "address and search" field on the home page, WILL accidently open a web page despite being wary of it.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar

(In reply to Christoph Lipka from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Actual results:
3. Firefox complains that it can't find "https:/foo".

Normally, the address bar should perform a search for foo. Do you have keyword.enabled disabled? If so, we're working on that in bug 1713827.

Flags: needinfo?(christoph)

(In reply to Harry Twyford [:harry] from comment #2)

Normally, the address bar should perform a search for foo. Do you have keyword.enabled disabled? If so, we're working on that in bug 1713827.

Yes, that is indeed the case.

Flags: needinfo?(christoph)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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