I want to provide some feedback about this change and see if this can be fixed:
For general usage, this change is good and better than redirecting users to unexisting websites when they want to search. However, there are some TLDs that aren't present in the Public Suffix List, which means that users who want to visit such domains will instead be redirected to search. Example of such domains are local/reserved TLDs (like `.local` or `.test`) which are commonly used for local development/testing, as well as non-IANA-managed TLDs, like OpenNIC (`.oss,` `.libre`...) and others, mostly by some decentralized projects (`.eth`, `.bit`...). All of them now just trigger a search. To access them, you now need to manually type `http://` or `https://` before the domain. Are there any other better solutions? Could Firefox try to resolve such domains to see if they contain existing website (for local/reserved TLDs and OpenNIC which are commonly resolved with custom `/etc/hosts` file or custom DNS server) and provide some API to extensions so that extensions will be able to tell it that TLDs are valid (for `.eth`, `.bit`... which are commonly resolved through extensions). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263505 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/263505/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
