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2/25 Firefox 3 — more better (6)

Go to about:config.
Set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true.
Profit!

This will cause Firefox to almost revert its address-bar behavior to the familiar Firefox 2 style where it matches the beginning of URLs instead of attempting some hairbrained search. If I’d wanted to search, I would have hit Apple+K.

6 comments on “Firefox 3 — more better”

2/26 8:50am Nick #

Awesome, this was one of my biggest complaints with FF3. Thanks!

2/26 9:54am Tim Trueman #

Thank you! I just got it around it (mostly) but favoriting things which just wasn’t the way I worked. But I figured it was OK since the del.icio.us plugin wasn’t out for FF3 yet.

2/26 10:54am Mike Malone #

Is this another part of your plan to revert Firefox 3 back to Firefox 2? ;)

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