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A strange Firefox address bar behavior

12 points by svenfaw 10y ago

fuzzywalrus 10y ago
Note: must type, do not copy and paste
- bnb 10y ago
  Copy and paste down arrow? On mobile.
ashmud 10y ago
%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 10y ago
  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)
mmastrac 10y ago
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.
jrcii 10y ago
I disabled all magic in the address bar so if I type "foo" it tries to connect to "http://foo" http://foo" or else returns an "Unable to Connect" error. I was surprised how many steps were required to accomplish this.
- CapitalistCartr 10y ago
  I'd love to read the details on what you did, and I'm pretty sure plenty of others here would, too.
  - rvern 10y ago
    Set keyword.enabled to false in about:config. I do this because if I want to search, I can just press Ctrl+K or click on the search bar. I use Ctrl+L or click on the location bar only when I want to navigate to a specific URL.
aorth 10y ago
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 10y ago
  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.
hobarrera 10y ago
Nope, redirects me to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goo%2567+%3E%3E+gogoogle.com%2F&t=ffab https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goo%2567+%3E%3E+gogoogle.com%2F&t=...
Grue3 10y ago
maps.%67 >> mamaps.google.com/ Bizarre.

12 points by svenfaw 10y ago

fuzzywalrus 10y ago

Note: must type, do not copy and paste

bnb 10y ago
Copy and paste down arrow? On mobile.

ashmud 10y ago

%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 10y ago
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)

mmastrac 10y ago

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.

jrcii 10y ago

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

CapitalistCartr 10y ago
I'd love to read the details on what you did, and I'm pretty sure plenty of others here would, too.
- rvern 10y ago
  Set keyword.enabled to false in about:config. I do this because if I want to search, I can just press Ctrl+K or click on the search bar. I use Ctrl+L or click on the location bar only when I want to navigate to a specific URL.

aorth 10y ago

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 10y ago
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.

hobarrera 10y ago

Nope, redirects me to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goo%2567+%3E%3E+gogoogle.com%2F&t=ffab https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goo%2567+%3E%3E+gogoogle.com%2F&t=...

Grue3 10y ago

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