Where did my typed in URL history go?

August 2, 2008 10:03 AM

Firefox 3.0 address bar drop down displays "Recently Bookmarked" list. How do I make it show URLs that I have typed in, as it used to with Firefox 2.0?
posted by lee to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

It should show a combination of recently typed and recently bookmarked.. like a smartbar.
posted by judge.mentok.the.mindtaker at 10:07 AM on August 2, 2008

Best answer: Go to your address bar and type "about:config". Click OK on the warning. Enter "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped" into the filter field. If you already have this value, right click on it and select "toggle" to set it to true. If you don't, right click anywhere in the lower pane and create a new boolean string of that name and set it to true. Both methods should return you to only typed addresses, rather than including bookmarks or links you have clicked.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 10:08 AM on August 2, 2008

Yeah, one of the new features of FF3 is that the address bar includes everything in your history. It's been a little annoying to me at first, but it seems to settle down into FF2 style behavior with use. One thing you might also miss from FF2 is the inline completion in the address bar. Fix that by setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to true in about:config.
posted by rhizome at 10:34 AM on August 2, 2008

Response by poster: I changed the "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped" to true, didn't work. I still have only a list of bookmarks.
posted by lee at 10:38 AM on August 2, 2008

Response by poster: I restarted it and now it is working, thanks Inspector Gadget.
posted by lee at 10:41 AM on August 2, 2008