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Tangential -- but my biggest pet peeve with firefox is its autocomplete behavior in the address bar. It seems to be impossible to prevent it from putting websit

Tangential -- but my biggest pet peeve with firefox is its autocomplete behavior in the address bar. It seems to be impossible to prevent it from putting website.com before website.com/page_I_actally_want The specific case I have: I use the URL bar basically as my bookmarks (turned off browsing history and top sites in address bar suggestions), and one of the pages I frequency is https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.com/blog/ (note that this is distinct from the base https://hackaday.com https://hackaday.com). In chrome it works fine, if I hit h in the address bar it immediately autocompletes it to the full url, but in firefox it autocompletes it to the base url so I have to hit h then down arrow to get to the site I want. For the life of me I haven't been able to figure out a way to change the behavior, and it absolutely infuriates me that there is no obvious way to fix it.

twic 5y ago
For me, it often insists on correcting internal-service.initech.corp:5010/dashboard to internal-service.initech.corp:5020/dashboard.
ghostly_s 5y ago
Glad to see I’m Not the only one. One of my few complaints with FF.
addandsubtract 5y ago
Have you tried typing "blog" or "hack blog"?
- osamagirl69 5y ago
  This is actually the root of the problem, the address bar behavior in my firefox config always gives me the first hit as one of 2 options: 1. Base url of a website (in my case, it only searches bookmarks, but if you enable search history it will match to base url of historical searches as well) 2. If it can't find a match, then it defaults to a web search What I want is for it to match full url's from either the history or bookmarks, but this does not seem to be an option
  - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
    Does using search qualifiers help: * # ^ etc.
cambrianentropy 5y ago
I had the exact same problem! There is no configuration option to change this, and I literally kept using Chromium based browsers for years because of this. This workaround isn't perfect, but it has allowed me to switch: - Bookmark the url - Go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > [location of your bookmark] - In the keywords section, put the first two or three characters (I settled on three) of the domain, so 'hac' in this case Now when you start typing in the domain and you type those first two or three characters (or however many you want to setup), the first suggestion from firefox will be your keyworded bookmark and you can just hit enter instead of having to hit down! Crazy how Firefox always defaults to the domain instead of the most frequently visited URL for the characters typed in, but this has worked for me.
- osamagirl69 5y ago
  This is intriguing -- can you explain your preference setup a bit more to get this behavior? I was not able to get this to work on my setup. I added a keyword 'uniquekeyword' to the hackaday bookmark, but if I start typing uni... it just tries to give me a web search. I tried enabling/disabling the search bar and messing with my address bar preferences but no dice. Counter-intuitively, it does sort of work if I put the keyword as a tag. It still tries to offer me a search as the top hit, but the tag result is the second hit.
  - cambrianentropy 5y ago
    Hmm, not sure what else you would need. When searching for a setting to make Firefox work like Chrome, I had found this a while back: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223611 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223611 I basically did what was suggested there. (The 2-3 character length I suggested was just from my experience of avoiding collisions with other urls I might visit and was when I wanted to hit return when I started typing.) Not sure if these settings matter or not. I just tried disabling a few and it doesn't seem to make a difference These are the only ones that seem relevant. In about:preferences#search I have this enabled: - Provide search suggestions - Show search suggestions in address bar results In about:preferences#privacy I have this enabled (plus a few other things): - Bookmarks
mjhagen 5y ago
I have the exact opposite wish most of the time, in Safari for instance, it's almost impossible to go to https://example.com/blog https://example.com/blog when you've previously gone to https://example.com/blog/2022/01/01/my-article.html https://example.com/blog/2022/01/01/my-article.html. In FF I like how it autocompletes with letter + right-arrow + letter + right-arrow. This way I can quickly go to different subreddits by just typeing r -> r -> f -> n for reddit.com/r/formula1/new and other subreddits using other first letters.
matsemann 5y ago
For me it's the opposite. Chrome's insistence to not give you the result you want from your history (because it want's you to do a Google search) is infuriating.

twic 5y ago

For me, it often insists on correcting internal-service.initech.corp:5010/dashboard to internal-service.initech.corp:5020/dashboard.

ghostly_s 5y ago

Glad to see I’m Not the only one. One of my few complaints with FF.

addandsubtract 5y ago

Have you tried typing "blog" or "hack blog"?

osamagirl69 5y ago
This is actually the root of the problem, the address bar behavior in my firefox config always gives me the first hit as one of 2 options: 1. Base url of a website (in my case, it only searches bookmarks, but if you enable search history it will match to base url of historical searches as well) 2. If it can't find a match, then it defaults to a web search What I want is for it to match full url's from either the history or bookmarks, but this does not seem to be an option
- pbhjpbhj 5y ago
  Does using search qualifiers help: * # ^ etc.

cambrianentropy 5y ago

I had the exact same problem! There is no configuration option to change this, and I literally kept using Chromium based browsers for years because of this. This workaround isn't perfect, but it has allowed me to switch: - Bookmark the url - Go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > [location of your bookmark] - In the keywords section, put the first two or three characters (I settled on three) of the domain, so 'hac' in this case Now when you start typing in the domain and you type those first two or three characters (or however many you want to setup), the first suggestion from firefox will be your keyworded bookmark and you can just hit enter instead of having to hit down! Crazy how Firefox always defaults to the domain instead of the most frequently visited URL for the characters typed in, but this has worked for me.

osamagirl69 5y ago
This is intriguing -- can you explain your preference setup a bit more to get this behavior? I was not able to get this to work on my setup. I added a keyword 'uniquekeyword' to the hackaday bookmark, but if I start typing uni... it just tries to give me a web search. I tried enabling/disabling the search bar and messing with my address bar preferences but no dice. Counter-intuitively, it does sort of work if I put the keyword as a tag. It still tries to offer me a search as the top hit, but the tag result is the second hit.
- cambrianentropy 5y ago
  Hmm, not sure what else you would need. When searching for a setting to make Firefox work like Chrome, I had found this a while back: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223611 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223611 I basically did what was suggested there. (The 2-3 character length I suggested was just from my experience of avoiding collisions with other urls I might visit and was when I wanted to hit return when I started typing.) Not sure if these settings matter or not. I just tried disabling a few and it doesn't seem to make a difference These are the only ones that seem relevant. In about:preferences#search I have this enabled: - Provide search suggestions - Show search suggestions in address bar results In about:preferences#privacy I have this enabled (plus a few other things): - Bookmarks

mjhagen 5y ago

I have the exact opposite wish most of the time, in Safari for instance, it's almost impossible to go to https://example.com/blog https://example.com/blog when you've previously gone to https://example.com/blog/2022/01/01/my-article.html https://example.com/blog/2022/01/01/my-article.html. In FF I like how it autocompletes with letter + right-arrow + letter + right-arrow. This way I can quickly go to different subreddits by just typeing r -> r -> f -> n for reddit.com/r/formula1/new and other subreddits using other first letters.

matsemann 5y ago

For me it's the opposite. Chrome's insistence to not give you the result you want from your history (because it want's you to do a Google search) is infuriating.