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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2017
Cc:
█ ranjitkan@chromium.org
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Whenever the character ~ is entered before the search, it will display an error; if ~ entered by itself, it will display your computer files including system directories and files in which you can view and download them.

Reported by rubiks.f...@gmail.com, Mar 14 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.98 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Enter in ~
2. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
Search for the ~ or the search phrase tat starts with ~.

What went wrong?
It would show System files.

Did this work before? Yes 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 57.0.2987.98  Channel: stable
OS Version: ubuntu
Flash Version:

Comment 1 by ranjitkan@chromium.org, Mar 14 2017

Cc: ranjitkan@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Typing "~" in address bar, gives user two option, First options shows the file system of the user and second option allows the user to google search "~" . Please select the second option so that "Search for the ~ or the search phrase that starts with ~ is displayed.

Request you to please try and update us with your observations.

Tried on Stable 57.0.2987.98 on Ubuntu 14.04, MAC 10.12.3, Windows 10 and same behavior is observed from M26 Version of chrome - 26.0.1400.0
Thanks.!

Comment 2 by durga.behera@chromium.org, Mar 20 2017 

rubiks.forever2000@: Could you please update the thread according to above comment # 1.

Comment 3 by rubiks.f...@gmail.com, Mar 20 2017 

Sure but how ?
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Mar 20 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "ranjitkan@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 5 by nyerramilli@chromium.org, Mar 20 2017

Labels: Needs-Triage-M57

Comment 6 by dtapu...@chromium.org, Mar 20 2017

Components: UI>Browser>Omnibox

Comment 7 by pkasting@chromium.org, Mar 20 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This is sort of the Linux equivalent of typing "C:" on Windows.  We navigate by default because you've entered a known filesystem path, but should provide an option to search if that's not actually what you want.

You can also prefix with "?" to force the browser to search by default.
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