It looks like everything works fine in latest Firefox 10 builds.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878375
Title:
Enabling protocol-less URLs messes up named hosts resolution
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Problem appeared with Firefox 7.0, which added the protocol-less URL feature.
As far as I can see, it's still present on Fx8 betas as well.
Basically, handling of URLs using named hosts (for example, "localhost")
instead of IP or DNS is unreliable, because Firefox strips the protocol from
the URL and then confuses the resulting URL with normal text to search for.
I've noticed two manifestations of it so far.
1) First case when this happens : using a bookmark set to a page on
localhost.
Steps to reproduce :
- Make sure you have the browser.urlbar.trimURLs config variable to true
(default value)
- Have a localhost web server on your machine.
- Visit a page on this localhost and bookmark it.
- Try to load the page from the bookmark.
Instead of loading the page, Firefox loads a Google search for the stripped
URL.
e.g., if you bookmark the page at http://localhost/myProject/index.php,
accessing the bookmark in Firefox will redirect to the Google search for
"localhost/myProject/index.php".
2) Second case : using a relative path in JS core functions.
For example, visiting a page that uses a Worker, itself calling the
importScripts function with a relative path.
It works fine when using either an IP or a real domain name in the URL, but
not when using "localhost": in that case the page will fail and throw an
exception "Couldn't find domain".
For the moment, setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false in Firefox 7
fixes those problems, but still : the default mode of a web browser
should not mess with the URL resolution process... :-/
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