Problem with entering URL
Ever since the last update or two I seem to have an irritating problem with entering URLs. If I'm navigating a site and modify the URL manually in the address field and hit enter, the URL reverts back automatically to the previous one instead of accepting the new modified entry.
For example if I'm on www.site.com/path/path and go to the URL bar and remove the last '/path' and hit enter, the browser seems to 'remember' and take me to the previous URL path, i.e. www.site.com/path/path. It doesn't matter whether the deleted text forms part of the URL path or whether its parameters after the path, or even if I modify the URL to something like www.site.com/path/anotherpath.
Once it starts 'remembering' there seems to be no way of getting around this except to close the browser down and start again. I've noticed this behavior on FF20.0.1 and also on FF21. It happens on all 3 of the PCs I use (2 at home, one at work). I'n not sure if its being caused directly by FF or the NoScript plugin (the latter seems unlikely).
Is there a setting somewhere to modify this behavior, or is it a bug?
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hello forumposter, maybe try this: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named browser.urlbar.autoFill. double-click it and change its value to false.
Can anyone tell me the difference between browser.urlbar.autoFill and browser.urlbar.autoFill.typed and whether I need to set both to false or just one or both of them?
Haven't been able to find a definitive meaning of the second parameter.
i couldn't find any documentation for it either, however after testing it, it appears that when browser.urlbar.autoFill.typed is set to true it means that only addresses you've once typed into the url-bar manually get autofilled, when browser.urlbar.autoFill.typed is set to false then all addresses that are stored in your history no matter if you have typed them in once manually or visited them through a link on a website.
browser.urlbar.autoFill will generally switch the autocomplete feature in the address bar on or off.
Since the issue generally relates to addresses that have been added automatically but then manually altered, I guess browser.urlbar.autoFill.typed won't cover it. I will set browser.urlbar.autoFill to false and see how it goes. I have seen a post that suggested setting both to false but I can experiment with that.
When I try to enter an address, any address in the URL line I get this message:
The address isn't valid
The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
Web addresses are usually written like
http://www.example.com/
Make sure that you're using forward slashes (i.e.
/).
The http appears as https;///, yes three forward slashes. How do I correct this problem?
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.