Disable loading of site from location bar

I've been using Beta 4 for a while, and it seems in the last two builds the location bar auto complete seemed to change a bit. I love how FF will work and pull my recent pages in the location bar as I type parts of the page name. However, it is extremely frustrating for FF to automatically load the page before I even click on the link. Often, it will load a page that is inline with the results put into the bar, but not the desired page. (Ex - I want to visit 10.15.1.10, start typing and after putting in 10.1, it loads 10.19.1.10, the page I just came from. At this point the page has loaded and I need to restart entering the desired address)
Is there any way to make it so the behavior required to load a page is either click or press enter?

It's particularly annoying when your favourite link need a password: the login/password dialogue box appears after every keystroke and grab the focus of the location bar without explicit permission.

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