Comments on: Disable and Remove Bookmarks, Favorites, Pages in Tabs and Last Visited Sites from Firefox 3 URL Location Address Bar

By: ldrancer

ldrancer — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:41:44 +0000

the problem is when i used that browser, the history is now jumbled, and theirs no way for it to figure out how long ago you visited a site, so no way to display recently typed urls. the history is one big jumbled mess, everything is in one big result. so you can’t type in an address, because it goes back so far how long ago you visited to show them. so the history’s messed up. way to take history out of firefox 3. i won’t be using it. firefox 3 sucks. you can disable showing typed urls though.

By: istenem

istenem — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:15:11 +0000

Me too!
I have the same problem. Are the Mozilla guys f*^#in nuts?
Anybody removed the bookmarks from the drop-down menu in address bar?

By: J D

J D — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:39:23 +0000

Me too. I have emptied the data files from tools, changed the value of “matchOnlyTyped”
to True and I see no change what-so-ever, any help out there?

By: Candiri

Candiri — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:52:19 +0000

Same for me. I’ve cleared the history & it no longer appears, but I still get the bookmarks. Anybody not having this condition? Anybody try if 3.1 has this issue?

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:30:15 +0000

This doesn’t work. I’ve changed the information, but it still shows my bookmarked sites when I start to type a URL. How do I stop it from doing this?

By: Firefox 3.1 Beta Smart Location Bar Enhancement: Special Characters to Restrict Searching & Smart Keyword to Search from Specific Website » My Digital Life

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:37:27 +0000

[...] When you start typing something into location bar, Firefox will try to guess where you want to go based on the visited history, then suggest the best match list and show it in the autocomplete drop-down menu. By default, it matches with what you have typed from below sources, as similar to Firefox 3.0: [...]

By: launchdoctor

launchdoctor — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:08:30 +0000

Go to about:config

Alter the following…

browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped; true

browser.history_expire_days; 0

browser.history_expire_days.mirror; 0

Right click and delete “Most Visited” folder

Restart Firefox

By: ihate awesome location bar

ihate awesome location bar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:28:32 +0000

I did install oldbar, still when i enter one letter , for example “A”, it is show me an address sites that have a letter even in the end. I hate it. I just want to show me in adress that only begins with A. Help!!!

By: Change and Revert Back Firefox 3 (FF3) Awesome Location Bar to Old Firefox 2 (FF2) Style with Oldbar Extension » My Digital Life

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:52:48 +0000

[...] To do so, download and install oldbar add-on. Do take note that the extension only change the presentation of the URL address bar when showing Auto Complete matching results. The underlying AutoComplete algorithm is still the Firefox 3 algorithm, which matches also entries from bookmarks, tags, recently visited sites and directly typed into URL address bar items, unless user chooses to disable the inclusion of ‘rich’ results from AutoComple algorithm to just recently typed…. [...]

By: Change the Maximum Rich URL Listings in Firefox Awesome Smart Location Bar » My Digital Life

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:14 +0000

[...] typed URLs, and also bookmarks to its results listing (if you don’t like the mixture, you can disable inclusion of bookmarks and recently visited pages from Location Bar matching results.) Thus, the Smart Location Bar is radical departure from old Location Bar in Firefox 2 which only [...]