TheUnknown Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Yeah... With the update on Neopets' Toolbar, I've re-upgraded to Firefox 3. Although with it, I have to deal with "The Awesome Bar" again. Any way to turn it off, or at least make it function more like FF2's urlbar? I've tried following a video from CNET on how to do it, yet the bar still works like normal, giving me links to sites with "en" in the middle or end of it rather than wikipedia links that start with "en"... :/ For instance, typing "t" now gives me sites like "The Daily Neopets Forum", "Youtube, Broadcast Yourself", and "Pokebeast Trading". Or "en" giving me "http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Message_Archive#How_to_restore_on-screen_pin_positions_after_using_the_209-212_Gatito_combo" or "http://www.geocities.com/nq_encyclopedia/monsters.html". While before in FF2, "t" would give me "www.thedailyneopets.com" or "www.tdnforums.com". And "en" would give me "en.wikipedia.org/...". Searching Google, I found this: http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-9971026-12.html I did as it said, and erased my history, and changing it to "True". I've restarted Firefox (and my computer after a few failed attempts). But nothing. I've tried this site as well: http://kb.mozillazine.org/ According to the page "http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox", "To prevent entries from History or bookmarked items from appearing but show those that you have specifically typed into the Location Bar (url bar), use about:config to toggle browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true." However, I have done so, and entries from both my history and bookmarks STILL appear. :/ According to "http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.matchBehavior", setting Browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 3 should "Match only the beginning of page URLs and titles.", which I interpret as "typing en to get "en.wikipedia" or "Enticing Title"". Again, this has not happened. :/ Any help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Well I was reading through the comments on the cnet one, and one person said "The video didn't work for me either at first. If you're using the AdBlockPlus extension you have to disable it temporarily and then the video should work." And then there's another one that says, "Just following the video will not do the trick completely. You also need to change "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" from 12 to 0. Just double click on the option and a box will pop up to allow you to type in 0." Maybe you'd want to try those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUnknown Posted March 17, 2009 Author Share Posted March 17, 2009 Well I was reading through the comments on the cnet one, and one person said "The video didn't work for me either at first. If you're using the AdBlockPlus extension you have to disable it temporarily and then the video should work." And then there's another one that says, "Just following the video will not do the trick completely. You also need to change "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" from 12 to 0. Just double click on the option and a box will pop up to allow you to type in 0." Maybe you'd want to try those. The first point only seems to apply to watching the video... :/ Looking up the second one, that seems to get rid of the bar entirely, which isn't what I want (unless it's my last option). What I really want is to make it as close to the FF2 bar as possible. Since, like I said in my first post, I type "en" to get to wikipedia. In FF3, it definately DOES NOT give me wikipedia, until the 20th or so link anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Here's something I dug up about the browser.urlbar.matchBehavior thing This setting will have the greatest impact on how your results are found, regardless of what sort of results you remove from the ones available (which will be limited in following entries). I've not seen results as I'd expect from this setting yet, but I'm not done working with it. A setting of 0 (zero) should give you a result of finding your URLs based on what you type being anywhere in the URL or page title. A setting of 1 should result in placing of what you type anywhere in the title or URL being first, followed by the URL or title beginning with what you type. A setting of 2 should result in only showing results based on what you type being at the beginning of the URL or page title. I found it here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...38&t=685365 I also found this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227 And if these things don't help, then I'm sorry but I'd be lost in that case. The browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped thing is the solution that keeps popping up wherever I look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUnknown Posted March 17, 2009 Author Share Posted March 17, 2009 Hm... The add-on definately makes it look a lot better, but it's still no FF2 Toolbar, since again, typing "en" gives non-wiki sites. For now, it'll do, but if anyone else can make it like FF2 completely (or almost), that'd be most helpful. About the matchbehavoir thing... It being put on 2 according to the link you provided conflicts with another page on the same site, where it says to be put to 3. :/ Hm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Well I guess you could set it on 2 to see what it does. Can't hurt can it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUnknown Posted March 17, 2009 Author Share Posted March 17, 2009 I have. I've set from 0 to 3. I've even tried 4. Nothing changed. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 From what I can read, there doesn't seem to be anything that can get the old bar completely back. I guess you'll either have to downgrade to FF2 or just adjust to the new bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Remember that on Windows, about:config changes often only apply after a browser restart. :yes: You've probably done this already, but just in case... If it's the display of results from your bookmarks and history that's bothering you (personally I find it useful xD ), and the config tweak you performed didn't help, then you could always try a beta of Firefox 3.1 (soon to be 3.5) - there's a new preference under 'privacy' that allows you to easily change what the location bar suggests. From what I've seen, setting browser.urlbar.matchBehavior should return the location bar's matching algorithm to that of Firefox 2, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working for you... That said, doesn't it make more sense to type 'wi' or 'wik' when looking for Wikipedia instead of 'en'? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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