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how to stop firefox appendind www. to url

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jwtind
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when i type url it is prefixed by www.

i want to access http://jwt3./ when i type this i get http://www.jwt3./ which is not valid on my local network

this works fine from desktop windows.

when i type url it is prefixed by www. i want to access http://jwt3./ when i type this i get http://www.jwt3./ which is not valid on my local network this works fine from desktop windows.

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yboily
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The short answer is to use about:config to find the browser.fixup.alternate.enabled pref and disable it. If you don't know how to do that, there are more detailed instructions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-web-address-bar#w_domain-guessing