--- iceweasel-13.0/mozilla/browser/base/content/browser.js.orig 2012-06-06 11:12:17.021562264 +0200 +++ iceweasel-13.0/mozilla/browser/base/content/browser.js 2012-06-06 11:21:37.000000000 +0200 @@ -5953,12 +5953,9 @@ let mayInheritPrincipal = { value: false }; let url = getShortcutOrURI(clipboard, mayInheritPrincipal); - try { - makeURI(url); - } catch (ex) { - // Not a valid URI. - return; - } + var URIFixup = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/docshell/urifixup;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIURIFixup); + url = URIFixup.createFixupURI(url, 1).spec; + // 1 is FIXUP_FLAG_ALLOW_KEYWORD_LOOKUP try { addToUrlbarHistory(url);