Location Bar is acting strange

I've been using RC2 of Firefox 4 and am noticing a strange thing - when I click on most links the location bar does not show my the URL that I'm currently at, more often still showing the "Go to a Web Site" that it starts with. This makes it hard to know if I've changed sites with a link and nearly impossible to do things like copying my current location to the clipboard or edit it if I want to get out of a particular section of the site I was linked to. Is this a bug, or an intended feature? And how do I change it to the old behavior regardless of the reason?
Thanks!

Additionally, I've later discovered that if I click on the site's little icon next to the location bar (the one that displays security information if you click on it), the URL in the address bar will inexplicably change to my current one.

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