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If i put say 123.123.123.123 into firefox desktop or mobile it will try to load a webpage from that host. If i put http://[ipv6] into desktop it works as well. If i do the same on mobile it sends it to my search engine as a query.

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think your misunderstanding comes from the fact that "wouldn't work" can mean a lot of things, and you didn't know quite what it meant

If

  1. you're not on an IPv6 network,
  2. you enter the IPv6 address of a website into the address bar and
  3. the browser attempts to load that website (not a search engine),

then the connection will time out:

OP never got to step 3, which indicates a problem with the browser