Comments on: How to revert to the Firefox 2 autocomplete location bar settings in Firefox 3

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:47:53 +0000

Seems like the Firefox guys are confused. A location bar is not a search engine, and it’s totally out of scope to search bookmarks and page titles if you start typing an URL.

Fortunately I left Firefox 2 on the box and can just continue using a sane browser.

By: Rien

Rien — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:38:35 +0000

Thanks for the tweak, that was exactly what I needed! I hate that new autocomplete nonsense and finding a way to turn it off was a nightmare. Until I came here, obviously. Thanks again.

By: normal

normal — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:09:58 +0000

I’m angry too. Autocomplete has been ruined in Firefox 3. And I’m sure the people who ruined it are proud of themselves. There’s something seriously wrong with the culture of internet technology development.

By: Hanabi

Hanabi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:29:32 +0000

I realize I’m just repeating more of the same, but I don’t even care. I HATE this autocomplete. When I type in my url box, I want to hit what I’m typing. I don’t want to SEARCH my bookmarks and history, I’m not an idiot. I used to type “m” to get to my mail. Why bookmark it or bother typing the whole url when I go there every day? Type a letter or two, hit down (if needed), enter your page. Now I type “m” and I hit results that don’t even START with m. It’s infuriorating, and I only have a few bookmarks at the moment, so they all show up before any real searches can occur, as if they’re somehow related to every single url I could possibly try typing. I can’t stand this, it’s a waste of my life.

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:01 +0000

I also DESPISE the new autocomplete feature!!! I don’t understand why a simple config option isn’t available to make it work the old way. The new layout is hard to read and returns tons of crap I don’t want and have to filter through manually.
It SUX !!!! Give me back the old location bar layout and autocomplete please!

I agree with the last poster. I may have to go back to v.2 until this is changed. I really can’t stand this critical feature being screwed up..

By: Bananaman

Bananaman — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:52:57 +0000

Absolutely infuriating, frequently-visited sites are now often listed below unrelated sites visited only once.

Most of us well-versed with the old autocomplete relied on it for speedy browsing; I’m going back to 2.0.x till this is fixed.

By: Holwinkle

Holwinkle — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:43:48 +0000

The new location bar behavior WOULD have been good (and better received) if it had the domain matches at the top of the results and the rest of the matches below.
Wish it was more configurable to allow that.

By: Firefoxuser20

Firefoxuser20 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:53:58 +0000

The Oldbar extension changes how the bar looks but it does not revert the functionality in Firefox 3 back to that of Firefox 2. I am infuriated that Mozilla screwed with the autocomplete feature, I hate it now. It’s intrusive now and very annoying.

By: me

me — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:10:25 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
Oldbar.

By: Ultimate List of Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks

Ultimate List of Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:03:18 +0000

[...] Firefox comes built with a great and versatile location bar, but we know many of you may not be used to it and may want to switch to the plain old Firefox 2 location bar. SimpleHelp was kind enough to detail the steps to disable the autocomplete feature and revert the location bar settings to Firefox 2. [...]

By: Ross McKillop

Ross McKillop — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:50:19 +0000

@ RotJ:

I suspect someone will come up w/ a style to do just that, but I don’t think it’s available yet. If it can be done w/o using a userstyle/greasemonkey script, I’m not sure how to do it

By: RotJ

RotJ — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:28:09 +0000

Is there a way to get rid of the title line and display only the url like in Firefox 2?