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• When I start typing "m" in the address bar, I just can't - he always change of an 'h '. In short, I can't type a simple URL. What gives? (FF 7.0.1)

  Basically, I'm trying to go to a mobile version of my own site to do something, so I start typing, "m.mysite...". "and it just won't let me do. I have to open Notepad, type the URL, then paste it into the URL bar. I have to interrupt someone new rule self-imposed which type a URL with an am' is not "according to standards" for a non-mobile device (just a lame jab, I'm sorry, I'm kind of frustrated here).

  You have enabled AutoFill the address bar?

  You can check the browser.urlbar.autoFill pref on the topic: config page.

  You can also make visible Protocol.

  You can set the pref browser.urlbar.trimURLs false on the topic: config page to see the http: Protocol.

  You can set the pref browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled false on the topic: config page to turn off the development of the field and to better discern the full URL.

  • bug 678352 - 'h' is entered as the first letter in the address bar is replaced by 'w' when browser.urlbar.autoFill is true

• What is this small triangle in the address bar just to the left of the button refresh which turns blue when the mouse passes over it?

  Installed modules include:
  Adblock more
  Add to search bar
  Easy YouTube Video Downloader
  Hidden ELEMENT Helper for Adblock
  Flagfox
  Ghostery
  NoScript
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  TinEye Reverse Image Search
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  WOT

  Hi ApolloSerenus,

  You are probably referring to location bar history. If you click this button, a list of Internet sites must appear. This article will give you information about the history of compensation.

  You should also look Awesome Bar - find your Firefox bookmarks, history and tabs in the address bar for other cool things you can do with the address bar.

  Hope this helps!

• How can I stop Firefox giving search suggestions in the address bar?

  From the last update, if I start typing something in the address bar, I get random search suggestions as if I was using the search instead. How can I disable this? It is kind of annoying, and it really bothers me. I read in another article that I went to about: config and checked "I'll be careful", it would stop, but I'm worried it may screw up my browser. Is there another way to solve this problem? Or do I just move a superior browser?

  No it won't cause other problems as long as you do not change other preferences.

• How can I disable the search for 3 ~ 'guess' in the address bar, above the suggestions of my story?

  In the new version of Firefox, when I start typing something in the address bar, instead of display the suggestions of my story, it shows 3 ~ ' popular search strings ", as in the Google search bar (for example if I type"a", it shows aol mail aol and amazon). I find this very irritating feature, is there a way I can disable the seach assumptions, so I can browse my pages of the story as before?

  Thank you!

  Hello mreti88, this isn't a feature built into firefox - probably one of your installed addons is the cause: extensions, themes, and issues of hardware acceleration to resolve common troubleshooting Firefox problems

• I can't launch any Web site by typing in the address bar. It's going to happen when I press on enter. Get the latest update of Firefox on Ubuntu Maverick.

  I can't launch any website in the address bar of Firefox11. I can't type in the address of website below but if I press on enter nothing happen.

  In Firefox 4 and later Safe mode disables extensions and disables hardware acceleration.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/safe_mode

  Try turning off hardware acceleration.

  • Edit > Preferences > advanced > General > Browsing: "use hardware acceleration when available.
  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/how-do-i-upgrade-my-graphics-drivers

  Create a new profile as a test to see if your profile is the source of the problems.

  See "basic troubleshooting: a new profile:

  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/basic+troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

  There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "tools > Modules > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.

  If this new profile works then you can transfer files from the old profile to the new profile, but make sure not to copy corrupted files.

  See:

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

• When I open a tab and start typing a URL in the address bar, my goal is switched to the google search field while I type.

  When I open a new tab in Firefox, usually the first thing I do is start typing a URL in the address bar to the new tab (normally that uses AutoComplete to sites that I visit a lot). The new tab usually displays a google search page which is fine. It's there if I need it.

  Lately, however, has changed the behavior of firefox when I open a new tab. After that I opened a new tab, my goal is taken from the address bar in the google search box. I mean not the Firefox search box either. I mean the search box on the google page. This occurs after I already started typing if I get the first letter or 2 of what I type in the search box, while the rest began to appear in the google search box. When I type a URL I want in the address bar. Not in the search box.

  On reflection, I think that there are a few extensions that try to block or reverse this behavior of the Google search page. If you check your extensions, are one of them suddenly disabled or missing?

  You can open the page modules using either:

  • CTRL + SHIFT + a
  • "3-bar" menu button (or tools) > Add-ons

  In the left column, click Extensions. Then check down to the disabled extensions.

• I have type in a new web site in the address bar. Press enter, nothing happens? Went to internet expl. ORER and tried. It worked. Uninstalled Mozilla twice. reinstalled. Still, the address bar does not go to the new site. What I am doing wrong?

  I type in a new web site in the address bar. Press ENTER. Wait. Wait. type in the same new website in the search bar. It goes straight. Uninstalled Mozilla twice. Reinstalled. Tried to go to a new web site. you press on enter. Nothing. What I am doing wrong? I tried this procedure in Internet Explorer and the new address was excluded.

  Hi markehrmann,

  I'll try from Firefox Firefox to solve the issues in Safe Mode. If you do not have the issue so that all your modules, extensions, and themes are disabled, you can try adding them in one by one until you find the culprit. You should look at the guide to troubleshooting Extensions and themes and article troubleshooting issues with plugins like Flash or Java to solve common Firefox problems as well.

  Hope this helps!

• Show only the URLs typed in the address bar

  Anyone know how to configure Firefox 6, so that it only shows the URL I manually typed in when I discovered the drop-down menu of the address bar or use the AutoComplete feature? It would be great if he shows me the most visited URL on top when I discovered the drop-down menu of the address bar.

  I don't mind storing the cache of the Web sites I have visited so that future visits to the site are faster. But not a big deal if it can remove history and only remember my URLs typed in. I want it behaves like other browsers.

  See

  • Browser.urlbar.default.behavior - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
    Change the value of 32 for typed and lost one of the best features of Firefox.
    http://KB.mozillazine.org/browser.urlbar.default.behavior
  • Browser.urlbar.matchBehavior - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
    http://KB.mozillazine.org/browser.urlbar.matchBehavior
  • Research of the bar addresses-MozillaZine Knowledge Base
    http://KB.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search

  You can keep all the features of the AwesomeBar in place including a space delimited by the tildea ("" ~ "") which would show you only the urls typed, and you would get all normal.

  I think one of the main problems is the 3 lines of rich text to show what would be better in a single line of formatting.

  I prefer to keep the full facilities of the AwesomeBar showing more than the default value and watch them on simple lines with the extension "oldbar" (2.0 KB to download), and with the extension 'location bar limit' (3.1 KB download) showing the options (80 results, 30 visible).

  • https://addons.Mozilla.org/firefox/addon/oldbar/
  • https://addons.Mozilla.org/firefox/addon/LocationBar-limit/

  Typed is high up in frecency, so if you have pasted a url in the location bar that would really boost his side 3 times and you would almost never have to do this often once you have a base of good story.

  Please mark "resolved" a response that will better help others with a similar problem - hope it was her.

  Change of subject: configuration such as browser.urbar.default.behavior variables is described in

  http://KB.mozillazine.org/about:config_entries

  1. type about: config in the location (in a new tab) toolbar
  2. If the nonsense of warning message appears uncheck the box before dismiss the dialog box message
  3. filter on obtained.
  4. Right-click on browser.urbar.default.behavior and choose 'Edit', then enter the new value of 32

• After downloading Firefox 4, when I type something in the address bar that he used to go directly to the site, now it goes to google. How can I change this back?

  For example: I could type 'facebook' in the address bar and it would automatically take me to facebook.com now he takes me to google.com and shows me the search results. I want that Firefox take me directly to the page as before I installed Firefox 4.

  I hate this new feature. Here's how to disable if:

  Come on in "subject: config" in the URL
  type in 'keyword' in the filter bar
  Locate the property "keyword.enabled.
  Double click on it to make sure that the value is set to FALSE

  eventually Firefox will take you directly to a Web site when you type in, instead of doing a search for it. Know that, if the word that you type does not lead to a Web site live while you're not going nowhere.

  To counter that, for example, if you want to go to Facebook.com , but don't want to change anything in the settings of Firefox, hold down the 'Ctrl' on Windows when you enter a URL. Which will automatically add the ".com" at the end of any word you typed in. Note that this adds only the ".com" and will not automatically recognize ".edu", ".gov", etc.

• type in the address bar goes to the yahoo search bar

  When I start typing a location in the address bar of browser mozilla, happening at the helm of yahoo then search that I'm still typing. very irritating. How can I fix it.

  Try disabling the Yahoo toolbar by clicking on Firefox (the orange box above on the left) > Modules > Extensions > disable or remove, depending on what you want. (These instructions are for Firefox 4)

  I hope this helps!

• Every folder I open it in Windows Explorer starts to run an analysis that goes anywhere in the address bar. How can I stop this?

  In earlier versions of Windows, I would allow the address bar appears at the top of any folder that has been opened.  I'm on Vista Ultimate SP2 now and I'm not sure if the same name is still assigned to this bar at the top that displays inside the location of the folder structure of windows to the folder that is open.

  It is the same field that indicates the status of your search in Vista.  This is the area, to which I am referring.  In the upper left of the folder.

  Whenever I open a folder, it starts what appears to be a search, and the progress of the present poster with the field more in more blue from the far left and go right.

  I thought that since that acts of domain the same when I do an actual search, as she does when I open a folder, that maybe Vista makes some sort of search, or perhapes an indexing function.  I disabled indexing on my system.

  But when even scan darn, or whatever it is, starts on every window I opened.  Is it that a folder with pictures, the pictures does not show until scanning, or everything he does ends or is almost finished.

  Whenever this address bar starts its thing, I can him an 'X' that appears to the right of the address field.  The blue progress bar will suddenly zip through as if it ended, but often nothing happens, like the display of thumbnails for a period after you click 'X'... as if it still makes of anything, that he was not concerned that I hit the 'X '.

  Sorry for the length of this post.  I'm strugglng to describe my question clearly enough.

  If you know what is happening and how to stop it, I'd love to help...

  Thanks for the clear explanation.  I've never heard of this problem before, but it does not sound like opening the file automatically starts the search function - a problem that could be caused by a number of things.  The first that comes to mind is a recent installation program or the Windows Update (or a corruption of the registry) that is causing the problem.  We will approach the problem systematically until we discover the problem (with the procedure with the highest probability of success first).

  Do you know when this problem started?  Try a system restore to a point in time BEFORE the problem started.  Here is the procedure: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-system-restore/.  Don't forget to check the box to show more than 5 days of restore points.  If the first attempt fails, then try an earlier point or two.  NOTE: You will need to re - install any software and updates that you have installed between now and the restore point, but you can use Windows Update for updates.  If this started recently, I think that this procedure can solve the problem without requiring you need to go further (but I could be wrong, and the problem may be with some corrupted system files that must be identified and repaired).

  If the system restore does not work, do a startup repair, boot from the disk Installation of Windows Vista genuine (or one that you can borrow from someone) or a recovery disc.  Here is the procedure: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html.  You may need to change the BIOS to do first the CD drive in the boot sequence to boot from the CD.  To do this, hold the screen that tells you the key F to push to enter the menu start or start of installation.  Push it quickly. Make the changes, save your work and exit.  Put the CD in the drive and reboot.  When you are prompted, press any key to boot from the CD.

  If you do not have a floppy disk, you can make a bootable recovery disk by using http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ with burning software like: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html and, of course, a blank CD.

  If this does not work, try to start in safe mode (repeatedly hit F8 key so that the start and go in safe mode with networking).  Then we will check some of your system files:

  Go to start / all programs / accessories / command prompt and right click on command prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

  Type sfc/scannow, go and let it run.  It will scan and try to correct some of your system files.  If all goes well he comes complete with no corruption, it could not repair (if it has these post of corruption here or try to analyze it to find the problem or files using http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228.

  While in the command prompt, type chkdsk /f /r and enter and let it run.  It will scan and try to solve any corruption or bad sectors on your hard drive and remove especially as a cause.

  If it does not, then thanks for posting any repetitive error message in Event Viewer on startup (Start / Control Panel / administrative tools / Event Viewer).  Here's how to use Event Viewer: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic40108.html.

  This could also be malware (although I have never seeen before a kind). Let us make sure that it is not.  In Safe Mode with network (click several times F8 during the boot process) try to run anti-malware programs. To resolve this problem (if it is a problem) download, install, and run the following two programs: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html.  You can also try a free trial of Pandasoft (www.pandasoft.com).  Before you download pandasoft, uninstall all anti-virus program you currently use (because the installation and execution of two simultaneously can cause conflicts, freezes and all sorts of problems).  Once you have uninstalled your current AV program, download, install, update and scan using Pandasoft.  I think you might be amazed at how much she notes that other software missed.  Once complete, uninstall pandasoft and re - install your current AV program (unless you decide to spend that I did when I tried about 4 years ago).  You can also try the new, free Microsoft Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx (with the same caveat that only program AV one ALONE can be installed and running on your system at any time). Set the scans to be comprehensive analyses and configure the program to fix any problems they find.  Restart after you have completed all the scans. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-Vista.html , as well as the upgrade from an earlier version of the Windows section of the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884.  Although this will not affect your data, settings or programs, you should always back up your data before you start just be on the safe side. If other procedures do not work, it is almost certain to work.  You can have a lot of updates to re - install (including all you need to remove service packs).  If the version on system with SP1 or SP2 preinstalled cane and the disc is an earlier version, then you will need to do a slipstream drive as follows: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/151606-vista-sp1-slipstream-installation-dvd.html.

  I hope one of these procedures can solve your problem.  If this isn't the case, after return and we will try something else.  Return message anyway so we know how it turns out.

  Good luck!

  If this does not work, you will need to do a repair/system upgrade using the Windows Vista Installation disc authentic (you own or that you can borrow from someone).  Here is the procedure:

  Lorien - a - MCSE/MCSA/network + / A +.

• What happened to the ability to drag a link into the address bar in a folder on the personal bar?

  It has been possible to left click and hold the icon of the site in the address bar and drag it to a folder on the personal bar to create a bookmark. This feature seems to have disappeared somewhere along the line.

  It seems that the problem may be intermittent. When I posted this question yesterday it worked and I was able to rearrange bookmarks into folders in the toolbar by drag-and - drop, but today both are behaving like expected. I'm not aware that I've changed nothing, but that doesn't mean not changes nothing!

  If all goes well, it will behave in the future.

  Thanks for responding.

• What is this empty box that extends from the address bar?

  I just downloaded the version of Aol of Firefox and this empty dialog box descends from the address bar. Then, I am unable to do anything with the page.
  What should I do to get rid of this thing?

  Disable the add-on AOL until AOL will fix it.

• By clicking on the address bar or search bar and typing does not erase the previous text inside

  When I click on the address bar or search bar and start typing a new entry, it does not erase the previous text. I always have to remove it first to clear the field and then I can type in the new URL or keyword...

  OK, I found the search the on: configuration database. The problem is that browser.urlbar.clickSelects.All is set to "false". I changed it to "true" and now everything is perfect...

  Also to solve the same problem with the search bar, I changed browser.search.context.loadInBackground from false to true.