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How to stop Firefox from adding www

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How can I stop Firefox from automatically adding www in front of urls? Even when I try to reach an ip it tries to add www. in front of it, which results in a 404-error. I already set my config as shown in the screenshot below. Please help!

How can I stop Firefox from automatically adding www in front of urls? Even when I try to reach an ip it tries to add www. in front of it, which results in a 404-error. I already set my config as shown in the screenshot below. Please help!

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It is weird to change a string-value to 'false'... But I tried it, no result. I solved the problem now by deleting all cookies, site preferences etc. Don't know how this could be the cause, but it works now :)

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Hi  !

Would you please try this :

Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

browser.fixup.alternate.prefix

And set its value to false

Then close and restart Firefox.

'Hope this will work for you  !

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Somehow the image upload did not work, but I already did that, as shown in the screenshot.

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Jowzer said

Somehow the image upload did not work, but I already did that, as shown in the screenshot.

No, you didn't change the value to the pref that I mentioned :

browser.fixup.alternate.prefix

It's the one in the middle on your screenshot .......

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It is weird to change a string-value to 'false'... But I tried it, no result. I solved the problem now by deleting all cookies, site preferences etc. Don't know how this could be the cause, but it works now :)

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Jowzer said

It is weird to change a string-value to 'false'... But I tried it, no result. I solved the problem now by deleting all cookies, site preferences etc. Don't know how this could be the cause, but it works now :)

Well, good for you  ! You inadvertently marked my post as 'Chosen Solution' - you can rectify that by clicking the 'Undo' button to the right of that post and then mark your own last post as 'Chosen Solution'.

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You need to reset the pref via the right-click context menu to the default value if you changed its value to false because otherwise the fixup can't work properly.

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Happy112 said

Hi  ! Would you please try this : Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked) Type in the search bar and look for the preference : browser.fixup.alternate.prefix And set its value to false Then close and restart Firefox. 'Hope this will work for you  !

Actually, this looks like a bug. I have the same problem. There is a flag called browser.fixup.alternate.enabled that is supposed to be blocking that action. It used to work. Mine is set to false, but it is now doing the 'fixup'. The ESR version I am currently on (52.4.1) has it broken and does not seem to pay attention to the flag. It looks like somewhere along the line, a bug has been introduced to the codebase.

browser.fixup.alternate.prefix and browser.fixup.alternate.suffix are the strings that are to be applied should the 'fixup' rule be applied.

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