You're absolutely right. Fortunately, this is Firefox we're talking about. I'm sure there will be an about:config option to disable the new behavior if you don

You're absolutely right. Fortunately, this is Firefox we're talking about. I'm sure there will be an about:config option to disable the new behavior if you don't like it. Just like you can change browser.urlbar.trimURLs in Firefox 7+ to restore "http" at the beginning of URLs.