What can I do to get Firefox "smart" address prediction to work how it did before today's "up"date?

Asked by Zaku (30607

) December 18th, 2015

I “up“dated Firefox today. Now I’m annoyed to find that when I start to type an address in the address bar, such as “Fl”, which in the past would have guessed “Fluther.com” so I could get to Fluther and my other usual sites with 2–4 keystrokes, now instead five different things with “fl” somewhere in their address (not starting with it), so now I need to use the mouse too to select which one I mean, and the “right” one is not just the site I want to go to, but some random sub-page I do not want to go to, such as the 2009 annoying question http://www.fluther.com/56214/is-travel-insurance-a-requirement-to-travel-to-russia/ .

ARGH!

How do I restore it to matching based on the start of the address, the way it used to?

Grrrr…

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I swear by oldbar..

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

Been using it since they fucked it all up in FF 3.0

johnpowell (17881

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Does your Firefox still have the “Search for text when I start typing” option checked?

Brian1946 (32637

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I also did the update today, and I now have Firefox 43.0.1. Even with the “Search for text when I start typing” option unchecked, I get Fluther.com when I type an “f” in the address bar.

Brian1946 (32637

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Thanks guys. I found a solution. Evidently in yesterday’s new evil version, the default evil hidden setting looks up matches from your history, even in page content not the URL, even though you’re on the URL address bar.

The evil setting browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete needs to be false.

@Brian1946 Maybe you just actually typed fluther.com recently and got lucky with it, or somehow have the evil setting off, or a nice plugin like the one @johnpowell suggested is blocking the evil somehow. (And no, the “search for text when I start typing” is off on mine.)

Zaku (30607

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