User-Agent: Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 I like the fact that if type a few words in teh address bar Firebat will google for the words howerver, I think that if you put in http://word or http://word:8080 it shouldn't google it cause you explicity use http:// this is espically annoying as I have the word jennings in my hosts file for a certain IP address I connect to tomcat on that machine with http://jennings:8080 but if the tomcat is down, then it googles the word jennings and takes me to a page www.waylon.com Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. http://anyword Actual Results: takes me to this page http://www.superlinksoftware.com/cgi-bin/jugwiki.pl?AnyWord Expected Results: since I explicity state http://anyword it should tell me no such domain exists or whatever.. espically if I have anyword mapped to a ip in my hosts file and go http://anyword:8080 and no server is listening on 8080 (cuase it crashed)

can we add any https:// as well? in general

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184433 ***

REOPEN: incorrect dupe.

I think that when Firefox cannot find the page, it does the google search...I may be wrong though.

Adding myself to the CC for this bug

It's especially bad when the entry into the location bar is: http://http// The result is the Microsoft homepage. This occurs primarily due to opening a badly formatted link, ie: http://http//www.uppsala.dk/serieanalys So the website is really the one at fault here, but the results are not good for Firefox.

Sounds like a bug to me...Confirming!

This bug is enjoying press coverage (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20046) and might further enjoy a swift resolution...

This feature should *also* have a pref. to turn it on and off! Mozilla has (or had?) one... why not Firefox? Perhaps that should be a different bug, but... ick.

You mean pref UI? The backend pref (keyword.enable?) should work in firefox.

(In reply to comment #10) > You mean pref UI? The backend pref (keyword.enable?) should work in firefox. The backend pref works but - why not something in the Preferences window? I would think that this would be something that people would want to change, and the majority of Firefox/Mozilla users don't know about the backend system (and wouldn't want to screw with it if they did). It's a geek vs. Joe User question.

Try to type http://http://mozilla.org in the adress bar, and you are redirected to microsoft.com!! I don't think that you guys should let this bug pass the 1.1 release of Firefox.

blocking+/- flags should be set by drivers only. you may nominate for blocking+ with blocking? (after reviewing of the blockers lists to gauge relative importance, naturally)

Entering just 'http' in the navigation bar, or http://http<anything> takes you to Micro$soft's home page. There can't be a worse, or more disgusting, bug! It also appears that MS bribed Google to direct a search on 'http' to their home page as well, presumably that's what get's triggered by the malformed URL bug. This *really* needs fixing!

This appears to be a dup of bug # 85999.

*** Bug 85999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 313408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263213 ***

V/dupe.