User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 If there isnt a webserver running on the local machine, firefox directly takes the first google.com result (in this case: www.localhost.net.au/. an anoying ad-site) and displays it. Instead of giving the same error-msg as filling in http://127.0.0.1. However, when running a webserver, everything goes fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fill in localhost eg. http://localhost 2. press 'enter' 3. Actual Results: Firefox directly takes the first google.com result (in this case: www.localhost.net.au/. an anoying ad-site) and displays it. Expected Results: Give the same error-msg as filling in http://127.0.0.1. do not run a webserver on the local machine

reporter, always test with nightly builds before submitting a bug or search bugzilla, this has already been fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178123 ***

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