IE/Firefox -- recalling clicked-on links
January 18, 2006 12:23 PM Subscribe
If I type or paste a link into IE or Firefox, I can click on the down caret at the right end of the address line and get a list of recent addresses. This persists even when I exit and reload. However, links I click on don't appear. Is there any setting or workaround (less clumsy than highlighting, copying and pasting) to get them into the list?
Or the Favourites or Links? ;)
The URLs are all stored in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs .. But I'm not aware of any program that does it manually. It is easy enough to write a program to do such a thing.
posted by adzm at 2:15 PM on January 18, 2006
The URLs are all stored in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs .. But I'm not aware of any program that does it manually. It is easy enough to write a program to do such a thing.
posted by adzm at 2:15 PM on January 18, 2006
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs", true);
key.SetValue("url0", "http://www.google.com");
etc
posted by adzm at 2:22 PM on January 18, 2006
key.SetValue("url0", "http://www.google.com");
etc
posted by adzm at 2:22 PM on January 18, 2006
I think KRS is saying that he wants all visited URLs -- and not just the ones that have been typed/pasted into the location bar -- to appear in the location dropdown.
I'm not sure about Firefox, but Mozilla supports this feature natively (by unchecking
You might be able to change the same setting in Firefox by modifying
posted by Danelope at 3:06 PM on January 18, 2006
I'm not sure about Firefox, but Mozilla supports this feature natively (by unchecking
Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Smart Browsing > Location Bar Autocomplete > Advanced > Match only web sites you've typed previously
.)You might be able to change the same setting in Firefox by modifying
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped
in the about:config panel.posted by Danelope at 3:06 PM on January 18, 2006
Related to this - any way of reversing the order of the urlbar drop down list in Firefox? I use it as a de-facto Bookmarks Toolbar, but it sorts them so the most commonly visited links are at the bottom...
posted by Pinback at 2:09 AM on January 19, 2006
posted by Pinback at 2:09 AM on January 19, 2006
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posted by Kirth Gerson at 12:58 PM on January 18, 2006