Escaped characters are added to typed URLs

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From: Randy Frickston (monkey_sausage_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:05:18 -0800

Sometimes (not all) when I type a URL into the address bar
in IE6, the browser prepends the URL with an escaped space
(for example, "www.mydomain.com" becomes "%
20www.mydomain.com") which, of course, results in "The
page can not be displayed".
To begin with, I believed that this was a personal issue
and that I might simply be highlighting the URL in the
address bar and then clearing it by typing a space before
typing the URL. I modified the method by which I clear the
address bar in several ways. First I started by using a
backspace to clear the bar and then, when that failed, I
started just typing in the URL without bothering to clear
the bar (since the highlightes section is automatically
replaced with whatever I type in).
I discovered that many people are actually having this
problem, though I find no knowledge base articles on the
subject (perhaps a poor search?) and no articles in this
newsgroup.
This has always been a real annoyance for me (thankfully
there are other browsers out there that DON'T do this).
Especially because, when I then try and re-type the URL,
IE keeps ahold of the previously-typed, incorrect URL and
I have to actually close the browser window and open a new
one, in order to retype the correct URL.
Any suggestions?

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