[nzlug] Firefox 3: Smart URL Handling... how to turn off?

[Mark Foster]

On Sun, 25 May 2008, Matthew Poole wrote:

>
> On Sun, 25 May 2008, Mark Foster wrote:
>
>> I wouldnt mind reverting to 'classic' behavior (perhaps where it autofills 
>> on history, and perhaps bookmarks, but not on search results) - anyone know 
>> if this is possible?
>> 
>> I've had a nosey through about:config and there's a bunch of stuff under 
>> browser.urlbar which I was looking through but nothing really seemed 
>> exactly right.
>> 
> Based on http://tinyurl.com/6rsuxt, if you set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults 
> -> 0 it'll disable that behaviour entirely. Take it back to the 'classic' 
> behaviour, as it were.
>

'classic' behavior was to autofill a matching URL in the address bar 
itself, not produce a drop list of recently visited (or bookmarks) that 
match.  Setting the results to 0 (which i'd seen when searching this 
morning) kills the features entirely.

The closest thing to 'classic' I can do is set the 
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to '1', so you only get the closest match.

My Ubuntu box is only 1Ghz with 512Megs Ram, its not the zippiest box - so 
i keep the 'trimmings' to a minimum.

And in response to Robin - yes I think I had misunderstood exactly how it 
works (no search hits, just a combination of browser history and 
bookmarks), and chances are if my machine was more grunty, i'd like the 
feature.  As it is, I need to save my cpu cycles.

Still wouldnt mind restoring Firefox 2 style behavior for the address bar, 
but I guess I can live with the current fashion.

Mark. :)