This appears to be a regression. I've opened a bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578856

Mike

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:15 AM Peter Schlierf <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I found one difference in my tests between ESR 60 and ESR 68:
>
>
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> We use the setting:
>
> pref("browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words", true)
>
>
>
> This is to support for single words in address bar to first search for DNS
> and if nothing can be found it will search against your default search.
>
> This worked well in ESR 60, if you entered an internal name without
> domain, which can be found in internal DNS it redirects to the website and
> did not search against your search provider (in our case Google). If the
> single word could not be resolved against internal DNS it searched for the
> word.
>
>
>
> This behavior changed in ESR 68, if I now enter a single word in address
> bar for example: mysinglesearchword, it will search first against internal
> DNS, but if this is not successful it will try to open hardly the single
> word with www.mysinglesearchword.com. Attached screenshot shows this
> behavior.
>
>
>
> If I set browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words to false, It will not
> happen, but then also the first scenario for internal DNS single words will
> not work.
>
>
>
> Someone else using this feature or can explain the change?
>
>
>
>
>
> Freundliche Grüße / Best regards,
>
>
>
> *Peter Schlierf*
>
> *Front-End Engineering*
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