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When I type in http://example/ firefox rewites the url to http://www.example.com/. Is there any way to fix this behavior without recompiling firefox? I suspect something in about:config will help, but I am not sure what, and I'm somewhat leery of randomly changing things just to see if they have the effect I want.

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What I would like is for firefox to try to make a http request to example (which it does, usually finding the address my etc/hosts file provides) and then, if unable to connect, to fail with a "could not connect" error, with example still in the address bar. Its current behavior is to then try to look up www.example.com, which tends to result in a 'valid' site, and I get a screen full of some domain squatter's dross and have to remove the www. and .com from the address before I can fix my typo.

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  • So what is the effect you want?
    – user1931
    Aug 20, 2010 at 23:46
  • I'm able to get firefox to give me an error, mind posting your hosts file?
    – user1931
    Aug 21, 2010 at 0:07
  • Mozilla calls this "domain guessing", so perhaps someone with sufficient reputation (or the OP) could add that tag.
    – Reid
    Aug 21, 2010 at 0:14
  • @JohnT, check browser.fixup.*? that seems to be the right place for me.
    – David X
    Aug 21, 2010 at 0:25

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I believe you want to set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled and perhaps keyword.enabled to false. See also this article and the about:config docs.

(Note: untested.)

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  • browser.fixup.* = false or "" did it, thanks
    – David X
    Aug 21, 2010 at 0:20

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