User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Hello, I have typed an URL that doesn't exist into the location bar: http://spruce:9876/page Then Firefox opens this page: http://www.aircraft-spruce.com/ DESPITE the fact that I went to about:config and * set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to "false" * deleted the text for browser.fixup.alternate.prefix * and also deleted the text for browser.fixup.alternate.suffix AND restarted the browser thereafter and checked, that these settings are still active. Deleting the .suffix and .prefix entries didn't matter, btw - I tried with and without these. This is a privacy problem _at_least_. I have no proxy server active, and my DNS doesn't give an answer for 'spruce'. Typing in "http://quirk:1234/something" redirects me to www.quirkcars.com - WTF?!? Ok, taking a breath and popping out tcpdump reveals that Firefox steals my data and ships it to Google, then using "I'm Lucky" or some such junk to visit the first hit. And all of this MAJOR **** with NO UI TO DISABLE! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disable url fixup in about:config 2. Enter a random URL into the location bar and press 'Enter' 3. See that you are redirected to some spammy **** site you didn't expect. You should quickly learn a lesson from your earlier privacy invasions, or I'll actively try to get everyone away from Firefox whom I ever recommended it to. Claiming better security than IE will sound very phony! Setting to 'critical' because I loose data to Google.

that's not a bug, that's a feature :-) see bug 233541 workaround: set "keyword.enabled" to FALSE in about:config

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233541 ***

Wrt comment #1: It's a bug, and I also just discovered that FF1.5 still goes out to Google despite I have set the keyword.enable preference to false (some time ago) as you suggested.