firefox should remove newlines (\n) when pasting URLs to the adressbar

[Alexander Menk]

Binary package hint: firefox

when pasting urls like

"www.ubuntu.com?
www.google.de"

www.google.de is displayed in the address bar. on pressing enter it changes to www.ubuntu.com?www.google.de an opens the ubuntu webpage. that can be a bit wierd. The adressbar should filter out newlines directly (on paste) - not only after pressing enter.

Same applies to the input box for searchs.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 5 22:31:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.4+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux self-laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Wed May 23 01:46:23 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)

When pasting urls like

"www.ubuntu.com?
www.google.de"

www.google.de is displayed in the address bar. On pressing enter it changes to www.ubuntu.com?www.google.de an opens the Ubuntu webpage. that can be a bit wired. The addressbar should filter out newlines directly (on paste) - not only after pressing enter.

Same applies to the input box for searchs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Copy this URL (both lines):

www.ubuntu.com?
www.google.de

2. Paste it on the addressbar. You will only see the last line.

3. Press enter.
Actual Results:
The URL will changed to "www.ubuntu.com?www.google.de" after pressing enter.

Expected Results:
It should do that before.

This bug has been reported by Alexander Menk on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/118850

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I reported it upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383358

[Ria-klaassen (ria-klaassen)]

This was fixed on trunk in or around December 2005. You can test it on the latest trunk nightly: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Please reopen if you still can reproduce the problem.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Upstream comment:

 | This was fixed on trunk in or around December 2005. You can test
 | it on the latest trunk nightly:
 | http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
 | Please reopen if you still can reproduce the problem.

[Alexander Menk (alex-menk)]

I now had a look at firefox 3.0a5pre:
filtering out \n in the adressbar ist fixedfine as said in upstream, but the input box for search (on the right side of the adressbar) behaves the old way.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:26:39AM -0000, Alexander Menk wrote:
> I now had a look at firefox 3.0a5pre:
> filtering out \n in the adressbar ist fixedfine as said in upstream, but the input box for search (on the right side of the adressbar) behaves the old way.
>

Do we know for sure that line feeds are always irrelevant for *all
possible* kind of searches? I guess no, but this probably needs some
thinking.

 - Alexander

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This doesnt seem to be an issue in firefox-3.0