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Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Posted May 19, 2008 17:48 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles by proski
Parent article: Firefox 3 Release Candidate available

Go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true. Unless you've typed in URLs
of pages whose titles are embarrassing, rather than following links to get there, or you want
to get to a URL you've visited but have never typed, and you want to get there by typing it
for the first time, this should solve the problem perfectly (and it works on Firefox 2, and
improves the behavior there, too, even without embarrassment to avoid). Note that, if you're
on a page that you want to be able to get to again by starting to type the URL and
auto-completing, you can go to the URL bar and hit return.

Sometimes I think that it would be helpful to have a quick command to set all of the boolean
options to the opposite of their default values. It seems like the normal pattern is that,
whenever there's a usability flaw in Firefox, someone will fix it, but make the fix require
flipping a new option, so that people who are used to the old behavior will not be affected.
And options don't get publicized, so people tend not to know how to make the browser behave.
Of course, if it's a controversial change, they'll default to the new behavior, so that
everybody who hates it has to find the option to get the old behavior back.


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Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Posted May 22, 2008 17:13 UTC (Thu) by obrakmann (subscriber, #38108) [Link]

> Go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true.

also, install the oldbar extension, which basically returns the location bar to the state of
FF2, to get rid of the annoying, useless rich results "feature".

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