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My URL Bar refuses to autocomplete from history and continues to offer "did you mean to go to" suggestions on single word URL Bar searches.

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Recently updated to Firefox 75 and noticed that my URL Bar no longer behaves the way I expect it to. My issues in order:

Autocomplete failure: When typing in a single letter of a website, say "R", I expect the bar to autocomplete to Reddit.com. It currently does not do this at all. I have checked my about:config and urlbar.autocomplete is set to true. Likewise my options for searching and address bar are all set to fill from history. It does autocomplete from bookmarks, but never from history.

Did you mean to go to: If I enter anywhere from a single letter to a single word, it brings me to the google page with that string as the search string, but also offers a small popup bar near my url bar that says "Did you mean to go to {string}?" and the options Yes please, No thank you, and an X button for the popup bar. I did some searching and it seems to be either a DNS issue or an addon problem. I have since set my PC to use Google's DNS servers, I've started firefox in safe mode, and I fully Refreshed Firefox, and none of them fix the issue.

At this point I'm about to throw in the towel and switch to Chrome, but I really don't want to have to. Please help.

Recently updated to Firefox 75 and noticed that my URL Bar no longer behaves the way I expect it to. My issues in order: Autocomplete failure: When typing in a single letter of a website, say "R", I expect the bar to autocomplete to Reddit.com. It currently does not do this at all. I have checked my about:config and urlbar.autocomplete is set to true. Likewise my options for searching and address bar are all set to fill from history. It does autocomplete from bookmarks, but never from history. Did you mean to go to: If I enter anywhere from a single letter to a single word, it brings me to the google page with that string as the search string, but also offers a small popup bar near my url bar that says "Did you mean to go to {string}?" and the options Yes please, No thank you, and an X button for the popup bar. I did some searching and it seems to be either a DNS issue or an addon problem. I have since set my PC to use Google's DNS servers, I've started firefox in safe mode, and I fully Refreshed Firefox, and none of them fix the issue. At this point I'm about to throw in the towel and switch to Chrome, but I really don't want to have to. Please help.