Control Your Firefox Location Bar Behavior

Firefox 3 added a much improved location bar which searches your URL history, bookmarks, tags, etc while you type. For power users wanting to control/tweak the behavior of the location bar, check out this article titled ‘Firefox 3.5 Location Bar Preferences‘.

The author gives you a detailed explanation of exactly how the location bar behaves as well as how to manipulate it. The topics covered are:

  1. Toggle suggestions on and off
  2. Customize what results get shown
  3. Change the matching behavior as you type

Note: I would only recommend those who know what they are doing tweak these settings, otherwise you may end up hosing your Firefox configuration data.

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  • http://kkomp.com Sharron Field

    ‘Somewhat OT; but ironic that a post about FireFox appears only 5 mins after the latest version of FF crashed for the first time after having problems exiting the C++ runtime library!

    I’m still waiting for the first version of FF that does the washing up while browsing. :-)

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