434962 - www is automatically appended to url if url not found!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 317056

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[gerhard presser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

i'm developing web-applications and i test them on my local webserver. so the url is http://localhost:port etc.
so sometimes it happens that the webserver is not started yet so if i type in the address i was used to get an error page. but since i think build 2.0.0.14 firefox tries to look up www.localhost:port etc. if that happens, a refresh doesn't work too...and that's very anoying because so i have to retype http://localhost:port
i tried it with other urls...it happens all the time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type google.com to the address bar
2. automatically jumps to www.google.com
3. could be useful for this address...but very anoying for local addresses