User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999 Often users will simply type their search query into the address bar. If this query contains periods (e.g. "999.999% uptime"), they will get an error message. How about anticipating their needs by putting Google search results underneath the error message. Example: Invalid Address Error - The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded. ================= Results 1-5 of about 154 for '999.999% uptime' Uptime (1) - celebrating 1 billion seconds - ... Uptime (1) - celebrating 1 billion seconds by Claus Sørensen on Wednesday - (dot.kde.org) Cached Similar pages VLT 4000 VT Engineering Data – Parameter Listings - ... value of user-defined readout .....100.00 .....0 - 999.999,99 .....Yes ... - () Cached Similar pages SecurePoint - Linux IPSEC (FreeS/WAN) mailing list archive - ... encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr inet addr:200.50.999.999 Mask:255.255 ... ipaddress + hostname - () Cached Similar pages INSTRUCTIONS MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY ... - INSTRUCTIONS MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY GENERATOR ... The delay - () Cached Similar pages About Me - ... no te informara que es un clones Ejemplo: /os trigger add 999.999.999.999 50 /os - () Cached Similar pages Next Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Type into the address bar: 999.999% uptime Actual Results: Get this error message: Invalid Address Error The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded. Expected Results: Google search results: Results 1-5 of about 154 for '999.999% uptime' Uptime (1) - celebrating 1 billion seconds - ... Uptime (1) - celebrating 1 billion seconds by Claus Sørensen on Wednesday - (dot.kde.org) Cached Similar pages VLT 4000 VT Engineering Data – Parameter Listings - ... value of user-defined readout .....100.00 .....0 - 999.999,99 .....Yes ... - () Cached Similar pages SecurePoint - Linux IPSEC (FreeS/WAN) mailing list archive - ... encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr inet addr:200.50.999.999 Mask:255.255 ... ipaddress + hostname - () Cached Similar pages INSTRUCTIONS MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY ... - INSTRUCTIONS MODEL AVX-DD-A1-PS 0 TO 999.999 us DIGITAL DELAY GENERATOR ... The delay - () Cached Similar pages About Me - ... no te informara que es un clones Ejemplo: /os trigger add 999.999.999.999 50 /os - () Cached Similar pages Next

That is a very good idea. Having different behaviour based on a period in the URL isn't that sensible. I've always found firefox's alert windows on an incorrect or unreachable URL to be its number-one most annoying feature. P.s. Anyone who actually offers 999.999% uptime on anything is probably lying. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041219 Firefox/1.0+

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The reporters description is still current in Firefox 1.5. I would like to point out that a search on only '999.999%' causes Firefox 1.5 to perform a hostname lookup on 999.999%. I think this is a bug, because a percent sign is not a valid character for a hostname. Actual results: Server not found Firefox can't find the server at www.999.999%. [and three suggestions for fixing the problem are shown]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Mass edit: Setting correct QA for location bar/autocomplete. My bad. I forgot I had once been Autocomplete QA too. Hmm, why can't I just set the QA of bugs to the default QA of the component in a mass edit rather than having to do it manually...?

This seems to be fixed in Firefox 2. When I enter "999.999% uptime" into the address bar, I am taken to Google search results.

Strings consisting of two periods and numbers, like 22.333.44, still trigger a DNS lookup.

I think the best approach here is bug 482874 Making a search would have various implications, from action slowdown due to unwanted network access to privacy.