Firefox v3 questions

[yoco]

I'll ask my question(s) here, and mod can move it if it's in the wrong place
Anyway I want to ask something about FF 3.x I tried v3.0 when it came out, but I didn't really like for a few reasons. First, in the address bar when you put in new link it doesn't save it as it does in v2. Can this be somehow changed?

[naughtydog]

If you are talking about history YES it does save them... Read more about it here

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Notes

[yoco]

This is whats actually really bothers me
http://www.shrani.si/f/2T/Lc/2DLaoz5V/1/ff3.png

I mean why would these sites be here when i have them in my bookmarks?

[anon]

So you want the Address Bar to behave like FF 2's?

Use this if you don't want Firefox to display any kind of suggestions in the Address Bar be they from your browsing history or from saved bookmarks.

Open the about:config page and set the value of browser.urlbar.maxRichResults as -1. Restart Firefox and your Firefox 3 address bar will behave just like that of Firefox 2.

[yoco]

Hm... I set it as you said, but it's still not as FF 2. I doesn't remember the address! For example, I write www.sb-innovation.de, press "Enter", page opens, but when I want to open address bar it won't cuz it doesn't have any links rememberd!
One more thin. Am I blind or there is really no "back" button here?

[anon]

Yes, that trick prevents Firefox from displaying *anything* in the Address Bar. Undo it and try this one:

In this option, the drop-drop remains enabled but it will only suggest website addresses / URLs that you have previously typed in the location bar.

Open about:config and set the value of browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to False. Now none of the entries from your browser history or bookmarks will appear in the 'awesome' address bar.

It should now only display links you've typed and nothing else.

About the Back button, try resetting your toolbar

[yoco]

I type browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped but nothin happens!

[anon]

Remember you have to go to about:config. If the value doesn't exist, create it (type: boolean).

[yoco]

Nothing works. Tried false and true but still the same!

[anon]

Restarted Firefox afterwards? If you did, there's a final trick to try:

Firefox 3 uses the Frecency score to determine sites that should appear in the drop-down. We can set frecency value for bookmarks to zero and thus they won't appear in the location bar.

Open the about:config page, and set value of places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus and places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus to zero.

Setting places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus to 0 will prevent bookmarks from appearing that you have never visited while places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus will prevent display of bookmarks that you have visited since the last time you cleared private data in Firefox.

Restart Firefox. Anything that has a frecency value of zero doesn not show up in autocomplete results and thus your bookmarks won't turn in the suggestions anymore.

[yoco]

Still nothing! I guess it's still FF 2 for me!

[anon]

The frecency trick should've worked.

You can still try this addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7429

[yoco]

Well I was doin just fine on v2, I just wanted to see if they fixed this problem. Guess I found my answer for now! I'll try again in new versions!

[Kyllyee]

I may be under thinking this.....buuuut:

Tools >> Options >> Privacy Tab


Is this what you are looking for??

[yoco]

No thats not it.