The “malformed URL case” seems like a very minor bug to me. My search for such a bug @ bugzilla.moz found a few bugs, and appears to be first described by URL guessing overguesses. I created some a relationships with another bug, “keyword feature shouldn’t trigger if “http://” was included”.

It is ironic that a # of mismatched bugs demonstrated http://http://....

Provide UI for configuring/disabling keyword.URL functionality is interesting as it describes some inner workings of the relevant functionality. internet-keywords also seems relevant.

I wonder if URI fixup happens after “open link in new window” as if the address was typed by hand still repros (in trunk/head). ?

I want to confirm some of these things in trunk/head, before I update any of these bugs with my opinions.

Thank you Greg for perking my interest further.

Not quite sure why a malformed URL like http://http://www.flock.com/home/about exhibits the same behavior, but I’m guessing it’s related to the above.