A strange Firefox address bar behavior

[jrcii]

I disabled all magic in the address bar so if I type "foo" it tries to connect to "http://foo" or else returns an "Unable to Connect" error. I was surprised how many steps were required to accomplish this.

[CapitalistCartr]

I'd love to read the details on what you did, and I'm pretty sure plenty of others here would, too.

[ashmud]

%67 is "g" encoded. In this example, it's goo_g_. Typing %hexcode for any letter of a site in your history/bookmarks at the appropriate position triggers the behavior.

edit: %22 is interesting. It triggers a JSON snippet.

[geoelectric]

yeah, but the string that pops up has the >> gogoogle.com part as a literal. If you hit return it'll search that string in the default search engine.

Similar things happen if you do goog%6c or g%6f (i.e. urlencode other chars in the string)

[aorth]

The address bar on Firefox for Android also exhibits bizarre behavior. Type in github and then go to the end and try to add a username after the slash. Horrible!

[bnb]

That's different... That's just the standard UX of their mobile autocomplete. It's the same on iOS (I type "f" and it autofills a URL - next letter I type is appended to the end of that URL, slash and all).

This is a problem with how it's interpretations the encoding of characters - they should be escaped by default and be able to be enabled with a flag if there's a valid use for them.

[mmastrac]

It's probably just a JS bug where the length of the urldecoded string is used as an index into the fully url-encoded string.

[hobarrera]

Nope, redirects me to:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goo%2567+%3E%3E+gogoogle.com%2F&t=...

[fuzzywalrus]

Note: must type, do not copy and paste

[bnb]

Copy and paste down arrow? On mobile.

[Grue3]

maps.%67 >> mamaps.google.com/

Bizarre.