User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0 Build ID: 20110922153450 Steps to reproduce: Uninstalled firefox 6.0.2 and Installed firefox 7. Actual results: When I start type 'h' in the address bar , the address bar replaces it as 'w'. I think due to the removal of http in the address bar , this problem occurs. Expected results: It should not replace 'h' to 'w'.

I can confirm this. For me it takes to type 'ht' because there are sites that begin the server name with 'h'. But it may be intentional, as you say, due to the intentional hiding of http://. But it may be confusing to the users.

I cannot reproduce this with clean profile. can you try this on new profile? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

Ek, you need to have some URL history so that the awesomebar can mach something.

I've tested on dirty profile, yeah, a lot of history but I have no luck. Still cannot reproduce this. perhaps, it's an add-on related. http://i.imgur.com/eicgY.png

Can you try creating the history in Firefox 6 and then upgrade to 7? I notice in FF7 the matched history entries (in the drop down suggestion list) do not show the http:// protocol. In FF10 the entries show with the protocol. Is it stored differently, or just displayed differently?

have you set browser.urlbar.autoFill to true? If so perhaps you ought to set it back to false.

It does happen for me on FF7 even in Safe mode, with a profile migrated from old Firefoxes (all the way from about 1.0 :)). Typing http ends up as wwtp and that does not match anything (similar to what is seen on the attached video). I have the pref browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped set to true. Also browser.urlbar.autoFill is true. Setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false (non-default) OR browser.urlbar.autoFill to false (default) makes the bug disappear.

(In reply to aceman from comment #5) > Can you try creating the history in Firefox 6 and then upgrade to 7? I > notice in FF7 the matched history entries (in the drop down suggestion list) > do not show the http:// protocol. In FF10 the entries show with the > protocol. Is it stored differently, or just displayed differently? Firefox 7,8,9,10 will not show http:// protocol in drop down suggestion, but https:// protocol. I retested this by remove all profile, installed firefox 6.0.2 and browse a lot of web and uninstalled firefox 6. installed firefox 7. I still don't get any problem.

Then try to toggle the prefs I have mentioned in about:config.

no problem at all even if browser.urlbar.autoFill set to true.

bug 559878 is for browser.urlbar.autoFill

Well, the original reporter here also has autoFill on, it is seen on the video. However, in bug 559878 comment 33 wants to take the approach from comment 30. But this bug matches comment 33 and comment 28. Also notice the bug 559878 comment 0 specifically says the problem happens when the text matches an open tab. I have commented here that the problem for me does NOT happen when it does not match URL of an open tab. Now when I look at it, my comment is missing here. Didn't someone mid-air collide it?:) I am for merging these bugs, but make sure bug 559878 fully covers this one.

This can easily be reproduced with a clean installation without existing user profile on OSX and Linux. Install 7.0, run, go to about:config, set browser.urlbar.autofill to true, close any other open tabs, type https in urlbar. It will autofill to www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/help. The previous behavior would have been to autocomplete the http portion but now that it is hidden it replaces the first char with w and doesn't revert to the char previously typed when it no longer matches an existing history item. You get the exact same behavior on an upgrade when trying to type https://, if you have www.hulu.com in or some other domain beginning with an h but permanently redirects to www.h... in your history. This prevents a user from typing https without having to keep typing until nothing matches and then going back to edit the w out. This is obviously due to the 7.0 change in Bug 665580 which was justified as Chrome parity. Chrome also has autofill so please don't suggest I just turn it off.

It seems like this is a duplicate of Bug 678352.

Yes, thanks.