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When I type the letter "h" in the address bar, it replaces it with www

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When I type an "h", the address bar starts autofilling with www entries.

When I type an "h", the address bar starts autofilling with www entries.

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Firefox may be thinking that you start typing http.
You should only see that as suggestion in a drop down list and should correct with the next letter(s).

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I'm having the same issue in Firefox 7.0.1. When I start typing "h" for hotmail.com, it immediately switches it to a "w" to complete www.hulu.com, in which the h in Hulu is bold.

It's obviously trying to complete www.hulu.com because I've typed an h, but in doing so it switches the h to a w. So even if I begin typing "hot" for hotmail, the h has already been swapped with a w and I get "wot".

Note, www.hulu.com is one of my bookmarks in my toolbar (perhaps giving it precedence with autofill?), and I've set my address bar to autofill within the bar.

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That can only happen if Inline autocomplete (auto-fill) is enabled or you have an extension that adds that feature.

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That probably is true, however this was never a problem in any previous version of Firefox when autocomplete was turned on. It also seems it's been submitted as a bug to Mozilla developers, so here's hoping it will be resolved in a future release...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690244

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Sadly, this issue still has not been resolved in v 10.0.1