Navigation Bar bringing up search results; not direct web page?
I use Google as my homepage, and the very top bar, where you are supposed to be able to type in an address and it takes you directly to the site, I think is disabled. Now when I go to type in the address, it just brings up search results. I have looked all over trying to figure out what is wrong, but to no avail. Help!
Also - it happens whether I use Google, Yahoo, etc. Whatever page I use it's the same, so I'm 99.999...% sure it's a problem with Firefox.
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Ah! It looks like you've replaced your location bar with the search bar. I recommend resetting things to the default.
Follow the instructions here Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars but instead of customizing, click Restore default set.
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If you recently updated from Firefox 3.6 the behavior is different. Now, unless you type an actual url in the location bar, we do a search for you. In Firefox 3.6 and earlier, we tried to make a guess about what site you were trying to go to and then just send you there automatically. This behavior wasn't predictable - sometime it took you to a website and sometimes it did a search. We changed it beginning in Firefox 4 to always to a search. You can learn more about how this works and all kinds of cool tricks to speed up your browsing in this article: Address bar autocomplete suggestions in Firefox
I have not updated my Firefox, and I DO type in the url. Even when I am at a particular website, the top bar where you are supposed to see the url just has what I typed in, or it's blank. For instance, I type in - https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us and instead of taking me directly to the site that I type in, it brings up search results. When I click on the result that corresponds with the link I "searched for", the navigation bar stays the same. It never changes, even when I click on a new link. I have included a picture of what I am seeing.
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Ah! It looks like you've replaced your location bar with the search bar. I recommend resetting things to the default.
Follow the instructions here Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars but instead of customizing, click Restore default set.
Thank You!!! That fixed It! YAY!!! :)
Would've been nice to leave us with the option. The search is unnecessary if I know where I'm going, and now I have to type in an entire url when I didn't before. I didn't find it "unpredictable" at all. So one feature is taken away and replaced with a second way to do something I was already able to do anyway.