Pre-requisites

• Have valid Office 365 credentials
• Have devtools.chrome.enabled set to True

Affected versions

• 102.0a1(20220518214245)

Affected platforms

• Windows 10
• Windows 11
• macOS 11
• Ubuntu 20

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Go to Office Excel .
3. Open a new tab and close the previously accessed page from step 2.
4. Type 'off' in the address bar and choose the "Excel - https://www.office.com/launch/excel?ui=en-US&rs=US&auth=1" from the Firefox Suggest section.
5. Open a new tab and type 'https://' in the address bar then select the "Excel - https://www.office.com/launch/excel?ui=en-US&rs=US&auth=1" from the Firefox Suggest section. .
6. Open the browser console and input the required snippet

Expected result

• The "https://" protocol searchString is not present in adaptive history.

Actual result

• The "https" protocol searchString is present in adaptive history.

Additional notes

• This issue occurs both for the "http://" and "www." protocols

Any search string can be stored in adaptive history, including "http", "https", "https://", etc. and "www" and "www.". There are no requirements for storing search strings. Any time you type a search string and pick a result with a URL, Firefox will store that search string + URL in adaptive history. (It's a little more complex than that, as discussed in the QA doc.)

The reason is that we want to accomodate whatever search string the user uses when picking a result. If the user is in the habit of typing "https://" to visit a site, that's totally fair.

So I'll close this, but please let me know if I'm not understanding.