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with autocomplete turned on, I can no longer type "https" as the beginning of a URL

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Montagar
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I have used autocomplete in previous versions of Firefox and I was able to type "https" at the start of a URL, but now since I don't have any save domains that start with "h", autocomplete imediatley changes the "h" to a "p" which makes it impossible for me to type "https". I understand that I can hit "esc" after typing each letter, but that is crazy.

I assume that Firefox now ignores the protocol portion of bookmarks and that is why this is happening.

I have used autocomplete in previous versions of Firefox and I was able to type "https" at the start of a URL, but now since I don't have any save domains that start with "h", autocomplete imediatley changes the "h" to a "p" which makes it impossible for me to type "https". I understand that I can hit "esc" after typing each letter, but that is crazy. I assume that Firefox now ignores the protocol portion of bookmarks and that is why this is happening.

Chosen solution

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

See also this bug report:

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

(please do not comment in bug reports)

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Ro0mquy
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Hi Montagar,

You may try this addon: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

It's from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and automatically switches to https:// on certain websites.

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

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

See also this bug report:

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

(please do not comment in bug reports)