idn in new firefox

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YuryG

I've noticed that IDNs (say, Russian) being put in address string now open only search, and not that address.
Is it reasonable behaviour?
firefox-57.0_1,1
 
I guess, although the support of IDNs is significantly improved, it's still far from being perfect. I don't have FF-57, but experimented with Palemoon (fork of FF) and Chomium. They look to be working correctly with Russian IDNs, but both switch to search if I type an Armenian IDN. So I have to add http:// explicitly like I do with intranet computers.
 
If you navigate to about:config and search for "idn", you'll see many boolean values.
I didn't spend much time to understand how they are supposed to work though. Maybe we can add certain custom values as well. They refer whitelists, but how to find them?
 
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