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url bar changes leading non-w chars. to w, can't stop it, what to do

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scottlovesdogs
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On urls that begin with an "h", for ex. helpdesk.asus.com, typing the leading "h" will cause Nightly to replace the "h" with a "w" it is very persistent and I can't find a way to turn it off. Could someone please tell me what I need to do to make it stop that behavior and still keep autocomplete on?

Am using Nightly 11.0a1, 12-9-2011 build, but this happened with earlier builds too.

Overall, a great browser. For me, there is only that one little annoyance, above.

On urls that begin with an "h", for ex. helpdesk.asus.com, typing the leading "h" will cause Nightly to replace the "h" with a "w" it is very persistent and I can't find a way to turn it off. Could someone please tell me what I need to do to make it stop that behavior and still keep autocomplete on? Am using Nightly 11.0a1, 12-9-2011 build, but this happened with earlier builds too. Overall, a great browser. For me, there is only that one little annoyance, above.

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cor-el
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Do you have auto-fill enabled for the location bar (i.e. is the pref browser.urlbar.autoFill set to true)?

You can set the pref browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false on the about:config page to see the http: protocol.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

  • Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
  • Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
  • Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)

Bug 678352 - 'h' entered as first letter in location bar is overwritten with 'w' when browser.urlbar.autoFill is true