Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-08-28 05:44
I understand that this isn't particularly useful, but this is actually what's happening. When autocomplete happens, it selects the autocompleted text so that typing will remove it. There's not really a way for us to disable this without losing this functionality where it is useful; e.g. if you manually select text and then type to remove it.

Comment 2 by jteh on 2012-08-28 05:47
A work around is to disable address bar auto-fill in Firefox. You can do this by setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to false in about:config.

It may be worth noting that NVDA now says 'selected instead' instead. Also, @jcsteh stated quite clearly that there is little to nothing that we can change to improve this situation without losing functionality. Time to close? @ehollig

Unfortunately, as stated in #2623 (comment), there is little to nothing that we can change to improve this situation without losing functionality. There is a workaround, however, stated in #2623 (comment). Closing, but would be happy to reopen if someone would want to address this specific case.