279638 - When choosing (highlighing and clicking) address from drop down history menu, Firefox will sometimes redirect me to another random webpage beginning with the same letter.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258438

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Larry Willis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I will start by typing in the first few letters of the website, and then will
click on the correct address from the drop down menu for address bar - i.e., 
espn.go.com (visited many times a day). Every so often though, Firefox will
direct me to another webpage beginning with the same letter - in this case its
usually www.elpais.es. Same thing for www.thedenverchannel.com, instead every
once in a while I'm sent to www.theonion.com. Let me re-iterate, this does not
happen every time, only occasionally (say 2 times out of every ten clicks).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Typing in the first few letters of the website
2.Use mouse to choose correct website from dropdown menu
3.Occasionally sent to random website beginning with same letter

Actual Results:  
I will usually go through the process again, and will then be taken to the
correct website.

Expected Results:  
I should have been taken straight to the correct website.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[John Vandenberg]

I have experienced this on occasion, on Windows XP again, but dont have any
better steps to reproduce at this stage.

Comment 3

[John Vandenberg]

The problems I have seen are explained by Bug 168623.  Add a comment if you
experience this again in a way that is different from that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168623 ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258438 ***