Hi McMike, quite a long time ago Firefox switched to sending a single word like gmail to search first instead of doing a DNS lookup first. There used to be a preference to revert to the old behavior and that was removed recently. If this seems like a change to you, maybe you were using that preference.

Here's one workaround:

If your word should be placed between www. and .com you can type the word and then instead of pressing Enter, press Ctrl+Enter to apply that "fixup."

Is keyword.enabled still set to true on the about:config page ?

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

There is also this hidden pref that defaults to false when not defined:

• browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words

• bug 1636583 - Allow forcing a visit by appending a slash to uri-like search strings

Is keyword.enabled still set to true on the about:config page ?

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

There is also this hidden pref that defaults to false when not defined:

• browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words

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• bug 1636583 - Allow forcing a visit by appending a slash to uri-like search strings

Keyword.enabled is set to true. There is no browser.fixup.dns in my config. Thanks

Thanks

If you set keyword.enabled to false then Firefox shouldn't do a search, but will try to resolve via a DNS lookup.

The Boolean browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words pref doesn't exist by default, so if you want to force a lookup then you need to create this as a Boolean pref and set the value to true.
In Firefox 79 this pref will be present on the about:config page.

• bug 1643259 - Unhide browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words [79]