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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263505 Title: Wishlist: add "use input as a search term" to "address not found" page To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/263505/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
