[Crossposted to n.p.m.browser and n.p.m.netlib - followup to .browser.] About a month ago, I filed bug 115539 [1] about Mozilla automatically trying to add "www." and ".com" to domain names when it can't resolve the name. For example, if you type "mozilla" in the location bar and press enter, Mozilla will try www.mozilla.com as well before reporting that it couldn't resolve the name. I find that a waste of time and bandwidth, a potential security risk, and generally a Bad Thing.
Mozilla's behavior has caused two other bugs: Bug 34943 [2], which is about Mozilla also trying to add www. and .com when you click a link, and bug 66183 [3], which is about Mozilla incorrectly saying that "www.mozilla.com" doesn't exist when all you typed was "mozilla". This bug has now been WONTFIXed, and I was told to take it to the newsgroups to see if anyone else thought that Mozilla's behavior should be changed. It seems to be a very easy bug to fix, since all that has to be done is to *remove* some code, and it would also fix bug 34943, which is currently targeted at Mozilla 1.0 though no work seems to be going on, and bug 66183, which is futured but can be quite annoying. So, does anyone agree with me? If so, please speak up so we can get this fixed! [1] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115539 [2] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34943 [3] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66183 -- /Jonas
