firefox address bar search problem

daven1986 · 29 Aug 2009 at 11:23

Hi all,

I upgraded to the new firefox (3.5.2) and now when I type "gmail" into the search bar it doesn't find it in the history. However when I type "www.g" it finds it. For other websites which don't have the www (e.g. forums.over...) it finds the address in the history.

In the previous version of firefox it would find gmail whether or not I typed in the www.

Is there a setting I am missing or an extension that would help?

Thanks

Daven

HangTime · 30 Aug 2009 at 03:04

Stupid question, but are you sure it is still in your history (as opposed to say googlemail.com)?

daven1986 · 30 Aug 2009 at 10:55

it is in the history as it finds www.gmail, but won't find gmail

tolien · 30 Aug 2009 at 11:22

Tools -> Options -> Privacy, what is "When using the location bar, suggest..." set to?

daven1986 · 30 Aug 2009 at 11:52

history and bookmarks

tolien · 30 Aug 2009 at 11:55

What if you type "mail"?

daven1986 · 30 Aug 2009 at 12:32

am not at home at the moment so I will try that and get back to you.

Thanks

daven1986 · 1 Sep 2009 at 10:02

when I type "mail" nothing comes up (except maps.google.co.uk when I begin "ma"!)

thanks

daven1986 · 14 Sep 2009 at 09:13

Ok guys, perhaps you'd like an update. It turns out the urlbar.matchbehaviour was set to 3 which ONLY searches the beginning of the text. So I set it to 2 and it now works as I want.

Thanks

Furton · 14 Sep 2009 at 10:35

I can't see that string in about:config, is it called that? I'm having the same problem as you.

daven1986 · 14 Sep 2009 at 11:22

browser.urlbar.matchbehaviour

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.matchBehavior this tells you what each number does.

Daven