More specific steps

1.) Type whois.com/whois/jiffy.com in address bar and press enter.

2.) Browser will redirect to URL

https://www.whois.com/whois/jiffy.com

3.) Page will display who is record.

4.) Now in address bar edit the URL to

https://www.whois.com/whois/jiffycloud.com

Note: Please do above step by appending the word cloud to already present URL in the address bar.

5.) Press enter.

6.) Here is the ERROR :  Instead of going to URL, Google search page is loaded.

Final URL in address bar


https://www.google.co.in/search?q=%E2%80%8Ehttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.whois.com%2Fwhois%2Fjiffycloud.com&oq=%E2%80%8Ehttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.whois.com%2Fwhois%2Fjiffycloud.com&aqs=chrome..69i57.3594j0j4&client=ms-unknown&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Issue is not site specific, happening for each url. 

more e.g

type 

1. eclub.in  in address bar press enter.

2. site will be loaded.

3. now append a slash in front of existing url

eclub.in/

press enter 

4. Error: instead of site, google search page is loaded.

This is happening since i have updated my chrome.

I have also stopped auto correct, auto space assistance for precaution but issue remains, mind you in my old stock android browser things works fine.

Unable to reproduce the issue in Android. Able to navigate to the pages after adding or editing the URL's in OmniBox.

Steps Followed
1. Started Chrome
2. Navigated to whois.com/whois/jiffy.com
3. Edited the URL to https://www.whois.com/whois/jiffycloud.com
4. Able to navigate to https://www.whois.com/whois/jiffycloud.com

Chrome versions tested
60.0.3112.116

OS
Android 4.4.4 8.0.0, 

Android Devices
4.4.4: C6902 Build/14.4.A.0.108, 8.0.0 Pixel Build/OPR1. 170623.027.

@safesome: Could you please navigate to settings and clear Cache and browsing data and check if you still face the issue? If so please attach additional info like details of your device and screencast. That would help us in further triaging of the issue.

Thanks!!

hello

After hours of research finally found a screen recorder that works without root on jelly bean.

uploaded the issue on youtube:

https://youtu.be/CIvjfJEc014

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "sandeepkumars@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

Able to reproduce the issue using #61.0.3163.98, #63.0.3224.4 in Android 4.2.2 R1001 Build/JDQ39.

 Below is the bisect info
=======================

Chrome Good Build -- 59.0.3067.0
Chrome Bad Build  -- 59.0.3071.100

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/59.0.3067.0..59.0.3071.0?pretty=fuller&n=10000

Results from pre revision bisect --
You are looking for a change made after 464640(GOOD), but before 464641(BAD).

From the above revision range suspecting the following --
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/b2197feae09d55e93d632fef6292729b1655ef1a

@benwells -- Could you please look into the issue, kindly re-assign if this is not related to your changes.

Note:
1. Issue is not seen in other OS like Android KK, L, MM, N, O.
2. Issue is seen in M63 as well.

Thank You.

Sandeep, Is it reproducible in desktop aswell?

Issue is not reproducible using #61.0.3163.100 #63.0.3223.8 on Win 10, Mac 10.12.6 and Linux Ubuntu 14.04.

Thanks!!

Heh, a bug that only reproduces on really old Android Devices.

In query string following extra item is added whenever we edit the url in omnibox:

%E2%80%8E


As in 
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%E2%80%8Ewww.joharsgroup.com%2Fsample-page%2F%2F%2F&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN



it seems there is some non printing character getting appended at start of string.


Also the issue goes away if we delete the first characters of url and then edit the url, for e.g

1.) type joharsgroup.com

2.)  site will redirect to www.joharsgroup.com

3.) now when we append / in front of typed url

www.joharsgroup.com/

we get redirected to search page

 but

if we delete 'www." in front of url and then append / the  site loads fine.

also works fine we first delete 'www.' in the url and then manually retype again 'www." and then append /

Another e.g.

1.) type whois.com

2.) redirect to https://www.whois.com

3.) now if we append / in front of url and press enter, we get redirected to search page,

 but if we delete https:// in front of url and then append / at end of url; the site loads fine..

its not a crippling bug, but a very annoying one.

I know the issue affects a very minor subset of users, I be more than happy to get the edit functionality back in my omnibox.

Could this be caused by
https://codereview.chromium.org/2806373003
?

I don't see much else in the blamelist that's plausible.

CCing the authors.

Other vague possibilities on blamelist that I spotted:
* https://codereview.chromium.org/2815833003 (definitely sounds like something that could be dependent on Android version)
* https://codereview.chromium.org/2816943003 (explicitly depends on Android OS version number, though I don't see how it's relevant)