Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

need a way to revert title search on urlbar and restore autocompletion ff2 behavior

Bug #214896 reported by Kees Cook
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mozilla Firefox
Invalid
Wishlist
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

The new firefox3 urlbar search mechanism is very upsetting to people that only want to search against domains/urls. Title searching is not useful and gets in the way of better matches. There appears to be no way to disable this new feature:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422610
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409895

"oldbar" plugin only restores look&feel, it does not restore the search behavior:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

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In , Jaroslav-zaruba (jaroslav-zaruba) wrote :

Sorry, for a while I assumed browser.urlbar.richResults solves this but it seems to me to do nothing...

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In , Jaroslav-zaruba (jaroslav-zaruba) wrote :

FF needs to get restarted
i'm sorry again :)

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In , Steve-england (steve-england) wrote :

fwiw browser.urlbar.richResults has been removed post-3.0b2
disabling the awesomebar and returning to the old style autocomplete is something best left to an extension.

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In , Steve-england (steve-england) wrote :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

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In , Jo-hermans (jo-hermans) wrote :

*** Bug 422610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Dmdmdm-mailinator (dmdmdm-mailinator) wrote :

oldbar extension doesn't fix the problem.
it changes only the appearance.

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Binary package hint: firefox

The new firefox3 urlbar search mechanism is very upsetting to people that only want to search against domains/urls. Title searching is not useful and gets in the way of better matches. There appears to be no way to disable this new feature:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422610
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409895

"oldbar" plugin only restores look&feel, it does not restore the search behavior:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

a valid wishlist bug - though not high prio. someone should look if its already filed upstream.

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
John Vivirito (gnomefreak)
Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Found that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422610 best describes the bug in this report as i see it and understand it.
Alexander no further help is located on the bug.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → New
Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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In , Shawn Wilsher (sdwilsh) wrote :

*** Bug 422610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Highmind63 (highmind63) wrote :

Even if there is an extension that does just this, that doesn't make this bug INVALID. If this feature isn't wanted in Firefox, WONTFIX is the correct resolution. Reopening.

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In , Highmind63 (highmind63) wrote :

fwiw, this feature can be restored by changing the pref browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 3, although it will still search through page titles. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.matchBehavior .

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In , Mardeg (mardeg) wrote :

Try this in Firefox 3.5 Edit -> Preferences, "Privacy" section, at the bottom for "when using the location bar, suggest:" choose "History" from the dropdown.
In about:config do the following
Change the value of browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 3
Change the value of browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17
Change the values of both browser.urlbar.match.url and browser.urlbar.restrict.typed to empty strings

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In , Shawn Wilsher (sdwilsh) wrote :

This WORKSFORME by changing preferences (see comment 10).

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Changed in firefox:
status: New → Invalid
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Sorry, upstream will not fix it, but there are already options to do it:

Try this in Firefox 3.5 Edit -> Preferences, "Privacy" section, at the bottom
for "when using the location bar, suggest:" choose "History" from the dropdown.
In about:config do the following
Change the value of browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 3
Change the value of browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17
Change the values of both browser.urlbar.match.url and
browser.urlbar.restrict.typed to empty strings

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Changing to the resolved duplicate upstream.

Changed in firefox:
status: Invalid → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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In , Mardeg (mardeg) wrote :

*** Bug 409895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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