Firefox 3

[SandEagle]

how can I do this? I turned off the 'Awesome' bar by changing the value of browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0. now i don't see any of my history popping up when I type an address. Can I enable just that, while keeping the bar disabled?

thanks

 

[biostud]

I think we soon will need a sticky for "the oldbar" extension

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

 

[Jodell88]

The old bar extension just makes it look like it did in firefox 2.

OP change the value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped from false to true and it will function like it did in FF2.

 

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: Jodell88
The old bar extension just makes it look like it did in firefox 2.

OP change the value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped from false to true and it will function like it did in FF2.

thanks, but that still doesn't allow me to keep my history.

 

[13Gigatons]

The suggestion to adjust in about:config is the key. This is where the real changes can be made, and avoids the need for extensions. I'll list the ones relevant with a bit about the value that will achieve your most desired behavior.

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
This setting is only really useful if you either want to remove the autocomplete function entirely, or limit the list to a shorter length on your screen real estate, now that titles are a part of the result. Setting to 0 (zero) will just stop all autocomplete results.

browser.urlbar.matchBehavior
This setting will have the greatest impact on how your results are found, regardless of what sort of results you remove from the ones available (which will be limited in following entries). I've not seen results as I'd expect from this setting yet, but I'm not done working with it. A setting of 0 (zero) should give you a result of finding your URLs based on what you type being anywhere in the URL or page title. A setting of 1 should result in placing of what you type anywhere in the title or URL being first, followed by the URL or title beginning with what you type. A setting of 2 should result in only showing results based on what you type being at the beginning of the URL or page title.

places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus
This preference set to 0 (zero) will remove the bookmarks you haven't visited from your results.

places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus
This preference set to 0 (zero) will remove the bookmarks you have visited from your results.

places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus
This preference set to 0 (zero) will remove URLs that you haven't visited from your results, but I can't quite understand where it's getting the URLs from based on this pref's name. I don't think many of us type a URL we don't then visit. At any rate, setting this to zero should preclude some odd results you don't want from showing up.

By adjusting these values you should be able to modify the behavior of the Awful... er... 'Awesome' Bar to act more if not completely like what you were used to. You will still have the appearance issue of the page titles, but the Oldbar extension for now appears to be the only solution for that.

 

[akhilles]

Originally posted by: rrahman1

Originally posted by: Jodell88
The old bar extension just makes it look like it did in firefox 2.

OP change the value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped from false to true and it will function like it did in FF2.

thanks, but that still doesn't allow me to keep my history.

He's correct, though. It's just that you changed the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0. Change it back to 10+.