jdmatl
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Deerfield Beach, FL | reply to jdmatl
Re: [FireFox] "urlbar.matchOnlyType" broken in 3.5? 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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11 Feb 2009 - 5:59
12 Feb 2009 - 0:48
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 |
