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Nope. On FF33, when I type in a one-word, no-TLD hostname in location bar, it takes me to my default search engine, while asking "Do you want to go to hostname?

Nope. On FF33, when I type in a one-word, no-TLD hostname in location bar, it takes me to my default search engine, while asking "Do you want to go to hostname?" The whole point of having separate bars is to clearly distinguish use, and to ensure data doesn't leak. This bothers me, too.

yohui 12y ago
> On FF33, when I type in a one-word, no-TLD hostname in location bar, it takes me to my default search engine, while asking "Do you want to go to hostname?" Do you mean after you press enter? I can't replicate your finding for words that are simply typed into the location bar.
jakub_g 12y ago
Note that you can use `//` prefix to mean `http://` http://`. E.g. if you want to go to `http://foo` http://foo`, you type `//foo` in the address bar. You can also use `//` URLs in HTML, it expands to `http://` http://` or `https://` https://` depending if the page is served via HTTP or HTTPS (this is cross-browser)
- ygra 12y ago
  And use the ? prefix for searches from the address bar that would otherwise be interpreted as something else, also cross-browser.
  - mcovey 12y ago
    that's an interesting one. I usually use a single quotation mark when searching a URL since Google doesn't interpret it as "verbatim" anymore and seems to just discard it.
- dchest 12y ago
  Does this actually work in address bar? Both FF and Chrome open file://... URL if you type //...
  - jakub_g 12y ago
    Did you type // and not \\ ? \\ does expand to file:/// for me, trying to open a network share. But // to file:/// never happened to me. BTW, actually it seems that if I type `//foo` and `http://foo/` http://foo/` can't be resolved by DNS server/hosts file, Firefox does Google search, while Chrome tells that 'webpage is not available'. Note also that some browsers want to fix http://foo http://foo to http://www.foo.com http://www.foo.com - for Firefox, see [1] and [2] [1] about:config?filter=browser.fixup [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entr...
    - dchest 12y ago
      I typed // (OS X)

yohui 12y ago

> On FF33, when I type in a one-word, no-TLD hostname in location bar, it takes me to my default search engine, while asking "Do you want to go to hostname?" Do you mean after you press enter? I can't replicate your finding for words that are simply typed into the location bar.

jakub_g 12y ago

Note that you can use `//` prefix to mean `http://` http://`. E.g. if you want to go to `http://foo` http://foo`, you type `//foo` in the address bar. You can also use `//` URLs in HTML, it expands to `http://` http://` or `https://` https://` depending if the page is served via HTTP or HTTPS (this is cross-browser)

ygra 12y ago
And use the ? prefix for searches from the address bar that would otherwise be interpreted as something else, also cross-browser.
- mcovey 12y ago
  that's an interesting one. I usually use a single quotation mark when searching a URL since Google doesn't interpret it as "verbatim" anymore and seems to just discard it.
dchest 12y ago
Does this actually work in address bar? Both FF and Chrome open file://... URL if you type //...
- jakub_g 12y ago
  Did you type // and not \\ ? \\ does expand to file:/// for me, trying to open a network share. But // to file:/// never happened to me. BTW, actually it seems that if I type `//foo` and `http://foo/` http://foo/` can't be resolved by DNS server/hosts file, Firefox does Google search, while Chrome tells that 'webpage is not available'. Note also that some browsers want to fix http://foo http://foo to http://www.foo.com http://www.foo.com - for Firefox, see [1] and [2] [1] about:config?filter=browser.fixup [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entr...
  - dchest 12y ago
    I typed // (OS X)