(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #86)
> you can also use browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words to force a dns 
> lookup before searching.

Would it be possible to have something like this (additional pref), but
only for searches that contain (at least one) dot? This would be useful
because most commonly, searches without dots are not used as domains
(except `localhost` which is handled separately), while searches
containing dots could be commonly used as domains.

Also, I don't know if it's just for me, but Firefox takes longer to
"resolve" (try resolving but then fail and search instead) domains
without dots (`for example `test`, which takes few seconds before
redirecting to search) that domains with dots (for example `test.aaaaa`,
which is redirected to search almost immediately).

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #85)
> just add domains to the whitelist, create a bool pref like 
> browser.fixup.domainwhitelist.yourdomain.yoursuffix and set it to true.

What about whitelisting whole TLDs/suffixes? And along with this, API
that allows extensions to modify the list of whitelisted TLDs would be
quite useful, for example for extensions that provide support for
domains like `.eth` or `.bit`.

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Title:
  Wishlist: add "use input as a search term" to "address not found" page

Status in Mozilla Firefox:
  Fix Released
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  Altogether too often when I get the "Address Not Found" page, it is
  because I expected too much from the Wonderful Bar or whatever it's
  called.  It would be a useful addition if the "Address Not Found" page
  could offer the option to use the stuff you typed into the location
  bar as input for your designated search engine, and/or perform history
  search on those terms.  (For me, the former is the more useful, but I
  expect both would be handy, and the effort to offer both is probably
  marginal if you decide to do one or the other.)

  All to often, what you typed in is no longer visible in the location
  bar, because http:// gets prepended and sometimes a .com appended to
  what is displayed in the location bar at the point you get the
  "Address Not Found" error.

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