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Firefox Address Bar Search Glitched
buchno:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on November 27, 2012, 11:55:07 PM ---'Reddit' just puts me on Reddit.
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Does FF auto-complete it to reddit.com?
For me, FF has always used the default search engine whenever the string hasn't been a URL or FF hasn't auto-completed it, ie "reddit" goes to Google.
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: buchno on November 28, 2012, 12:05:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on November 27, 2012, 11:55:07 PM ---'Reddit' just puts me on Reddit.
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Does FF auto-complete it to reddit.com?
For me, FF has always used the default search engine whenever the string hasn't been a URL or FF hasn't auto-completed it, ie "reddit" goes to Google.
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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.
xShadow:
Aye, I've had this too. My laptop and desktop computer, and even different installations of the same OS on the same comp... Firefox address bar did differently on all of them. They really gotta fix that... Or give users an option as to what they want it to do on first boot of the browser. Thanks for the link btw... I had no idea how to fix that shit (also didn't care enough but might as well now).
buchno:
--- 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?
megido-rev.M:
Maybe, possibly something else too.
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