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Firefox Address Bar Search Glitched
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: buchno on November 28, 2012, 03:21:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on November 28, 2012, 11:25:09 AM ---I have no idea why the default seems to be different for different people, but the advanced option I mentioned is what defines the behaviour of the address bar. It just tells it the search provider to use, and what url to use for searching. When FF automatically jumps to the relevant webpage (ie. going to reddit.com if you type reddit), it's because it's using Google's near-field search (or whatever it's called), which automatically picks the best website, if there clearly is one, and redirects you there. Changing the URL to remove that just uses normal Google search; or you can put in Yahoo or whatever to use that instead.
But it's really weird how it seems to behave differently by default for different people, even though none of them have done anything to set its behaviour. I wonder what could be causing it.
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Is keyword.URL supposed to be blank if I haven't touched it?
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It was in mine, too. No idea what it uses instead.
megido-rev.M:
I remember at one point the bar went through some search page I never even heard of.
Started with an 'A' I believe.
Soryon:
Hmm. Not a fix to the problem, but...
address bar auto completes address I have previously gone to or just used as normal, second is google search bar (can be changed to w/e search site you prefer.)
I didnt know the address bar was supposed to do that, but I never really cared either.
Meomix:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on November 28, 2012, 12:03:06 AM ---Got it. It took about 2 minutes of Googling to see how to fix your problem, Meo.
Go to about:config, search for the option Keyword.URL, and change its value to "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=" (no quotes). If you just want it to go to a normal Google search, rather than the website you type in, remove the "&gfns=1" bit from that url.
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It didn't fix anything, but googling about the auto complete behavior some people mentioned on this thread lead me to this page. Disabling browser.urlbar.autoFill in about:config stopped it from going directly to the website instead of google.
It didn't fix the main issue of it turning up a blank page when i enter one word though.
Duki3003:
In about:config change keyword.url to http://www.google.com/search?q=
and keyword.enabled to true
If it doesn't work you can always bypass it by typing "g some_word" in the address bar
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