IE/Firefox -- recalling clicked-on links

January 18, 2006 12:23 PM

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?
posted by KRS to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

You don't like the History list?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 12:58 PM on January 18, 2006

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

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

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 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