How to stop location bar autocomplete from using top-level domains?
I love the location bar autocomplete - or at least, I used to. I had it trained to the point where typing one letter was enough to bring up the pages I used most often. But now with Firefox 12, it ignores all that and favors top-level domains.
For instance: I haven't been to the front page of YouTube in years; there's no reason to go there. When I would type "www.y" into the location bar, it would pop up to the one video I visited most often - and that's exactly what I WANTED it to do. Now it defaults to "YouTube.com" and I have to scroll down to find the actual page I want. Same deal with Wikipedia: I don't want to go to the front page, I want to go to the page I use most often for research.
So basically, what do I need to change to get the location bar autocomplete to stop giving me top-level domains I don't want, and go back to giving me the subpages I spent years training it to favor? Scrolling down to the right entry is a waste of time when typing one letter and hitting enter should be enough to do it...
All Replies (5)
It still does that, you just need to "train" it again. ;) It goes to the page you visited the most/last as a first option. Also, you can delete any unwanted urls it shows by arrow down to it and pressing delete. Hope this helps.
KeiraTG modificouno o
No, it really does favor the top-level domains over any other, and no amount of training has been able to fix that.
For instance, the YouTube example I gave: I have *never* been to the front page of YouTube on this computer; that's not "on this installation of Firefox," but "on this computer, period." I've never visited that page, but that's what the autocomplete chooses to fill in.
And I can't remove it from the drop-down menu, because it doesn't appear there. Thus, there's no way to arrow down to it. It's only in the location bar, and I have to arrow down to get to the right entry...
I just typed "yo" in the location bar and the last clip i viewed on youtube is the first in the list. I meant the locationbar with the dropdown, as it drops down if you type something there, in there you can arrow down, press delete and it's gone.
And I meant the actual location bar, not the dropdown menu below it. The dropdown is fine: it's the autocomplete in the location bar that needs to be fixed...
yogore modificouno o
Okay, so now that we're on Firefox 13 instead of 12, it's time to ask this again: how do you make the location bar's autocomplete stop favoring top-level domains?