I think this bug exists on desktop too (CCing Frank Yan since he has talked about fixing this as part of the work we're doing on search there). - When typing a phrase into the search box on Fennec, I sometimes get hijacked to the Comcast search page - If I enter a single word like "testing", we automatically forward to testing.com. This is inconsistent with desktop behavior (which always does a search), and breaks the predictability of what will happen if you enter a single word as a search phrase.

Not sure what we can do here process is close to * Check Firefox internal DNS cache * Ask system DNS service about the item * System DNS checks its local cache * System queries remote DNS servers * ISP returns bogus search result instead of the correct DNS error * this shortcuts our keyword.url fallback

> This is inconsistent with desktop behavior (which always does a search) That's a matter of default preferences, no? There are various preferences that control the exact URI fixup behavior... That has nothing to do with networking; seems like a pure Fennec issue.

You are right boris totally misread this bug. ignore comment 1

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #2) > > This is inconsistent with desktop behavior (which always does a search) > > That's a matter of default preferences, no? There are various preferences > that control the exact URI fixup behavior... That has nothing to do with > networking; seems like a pure Fennec issue. Yeah, I'm sure there's a pref that will do something different — just pointing out that it's not doing the same by default as the desktop version is doing right now.

Brian - Let's figure out what we need to do to make this work like desktop

bug 701374 is fixing this now