413211 - Ability to use old-style URL auto-completion in address-bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

Let user switch to the old-style URL auto-completion in address-bar; so that only URLs are used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
when I type "mp3" in the address-bar I get "123mp3.tld" in the first place instead of "mp3.tld"

Expected Results:  
when I type "mp3" in the address-bar I get "mp3.tld" in the first place

Comment 1

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

Sorry, for a while I assumed browser.urlbar.richResults solves this but it seems to me to do nothing...

Comment 2

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

FF needs to get restarted
i'm sorry again :)

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

fwiw browser.urlbar.richResults has been removed post-3.0b2
disabling the awesomebar and returning to the old style autocomplete is something best left to an extension.

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

Comment 6

[d]

oldbar extension doesn't fix the problem.
it changes only the appearance.

Comment 8

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Even if there is an extension that does just this, that doesn't make this bug INVALID. If this feature isn't wanted in Firefox, WONTFIX is the correct resolution. Reopening.

Comment 9

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

fwiw, this feature can be restored by changing the pref browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 3, although it will still search through page titles. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.matchBehavior .

Comment 10

[Mardeg]

Try this in Firefox 3.5 Edit -> Preferences, "Privacy" section, at the bottom for "when using the location bar, suggest:" choose "History" from the dropdown.
In about:config do the following
Change the value of browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 3
Change the value of browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17
Change the values of both browser.urlbar.match.url and browser.urlbar.restrict.typed to empty strings

Comment 11

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This WORKSFORME by changing preferences (see comment 10).