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.net is added to a URL--why?

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jhstutzman
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On a specific vBulletin site (net-benefits.net), searches for new posts or the newest post in a thread generate an error because FF (33.1 now, but it's been going on for several versions) adds ".net/" to the URL every time. What should be "http://net-benefits.net/search.php?searchid=xxxxx" ends up as "http://net-benefits.net/.net/search.php?searchid=xxxxx" Manually removing the extraneous .net/ gets a successful search. The error does not happen on Chrome.

On a specific vBulletin site (net-benefits.net), searches for new posts or the newest post in a thread generate an error because FF (33.1 now, but it's been going on for several versions) adds ".net/" to the URL every time. What should be "http://net-benefits.net/search.php?searchid=xxxxx" ends up as "http://net-benefits.net/.net/search.php?searchid=xxxxx" Manually removing the extraneous .net/ gets a successful search. The error does not happen on Chrome.

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finitarry
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Probably nothing to do with it, but do you have "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" set to true in about:config? If so, try setting it to false.

jhstutzman
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I tried changing that setting, and it worked the first time I tried it, but not since. Any other suggestions?

finitarry
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Does that setting keep getting changed? Does that problem happen when you are in Firefox safe mode? It might be an extension doing that.