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[FireFox] "urlbar.matchOnlyType" broken in 3.5?

Argggghhh. Not the same. I can't get it to take what I manually typed. It doens't work as it did before. I have to get all the sites visited with "history", or I have to create bookmark of the site I want and use "bookmarks".

Thanks FF team for killing this tweak. ARghhhh!!!

reply to jdmatl
That setting "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped" no longer exists in Firefox 3.5. I reset it in about:config and it disappeared. Needless to say, I cannot get Firefox to remember what I type into the urlbar.

reply to jdmatl
See if this helps or not.

'»kb.mozillazine.org/Talk:Disablin···_Firefox'

or

'»kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_aut···refox%29'

reply to jdmatl
This totally works, location bar in 3.5 is back to 3.0.x behavior.

»ed.agadak.net/2009/02/firefox-31···ferences

Customize Results
The second preference lets you make the location bar only match URLs of pages you’ve visited, similar to Firefox 2’s
behavior. It’s much more powerful than just that as it also lets you restrict results to pages that you’ve 1) visited, 2)
bookmarked, 3) tagged or 4) typed in addition to letting you force your search terms to match in 1) the title or 2) the URL.

You can use any combination of these filters to reduce the number of results that show up in the location bar’s suggestions.
Another way to look at it is if you specify some filters, e.g., bookmarked + typed, you’re getting rid of anything that isn’t
that — throw away all results that aren’t bookmarked as well as get rid of pages that you’ve never typed in the location bar.
The way you set these filters in browser.urlbar.default.behavior is slightly tricky if you’re not familiar with “bitmaps.”
They’re not too complicated to deal with, but you will have to do some simple addition in your head. The way things work
is each filter is given a number value, and to figure out what number to set for the preference, just add up the values of each
filter you want.
Firefox 3.5 Location Bar Preferences | edilee »ed.agadak.net/2009/02/firefox-31···ferences
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If you want the location bar to only match URLs of pages you’ve visited like Firefox 2, set
browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17 (1 for visited pages + 16 for URLs).

Similarly, if you want to additionally restrict results to pages you’ve typed in, add in an extra 32 for “typed” — 49 for
matching URLs of typed, visited pages. So for those who have used browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped in the past, you’ll
probably want to add 32 to any other filters you want.

The whole set of values for each filter are as follows:
1: visited
2: bookmarked
4: tagged
8: match title
16: match URL
32: typed

reply to jdmatl
jdmatl thank you so much, I've been annoyed by this change since upgrading to FF 3.5 but now it's all fixed!!

reply to jdmatl
Great post and link! Thanks