How do I get address bar to go directly to the site addressed and not search

I use the address bar to go directly to sites. Yahoo interprets my input as a search request and delivers the same mess of options that a search bar would provide. I want the address bar to only connect to the site for which I type in the address. If the address I type in cannot be found, all I want is a notification of that fact.

Let's start by turning off address bar search.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste '''keyw''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the '''keyword.enabled''' preference to switch it from true to false.
Then test again with a nonsense URL. Do you get the expected error?
If instead you get search results for that or for any one word (space-less) search, then those results are a feature provided by your DNS service provider, which often is your ISP. Check the results page for any way they might offer to discontinue the service and just get plain error messages.

Similar Messages

  • How do I get a longer list of items in the history window - and not have to click "Show All History"? The default list is too short.

    How do I get a longer list of items in the history window - and not have to click "Show All History"? The default list is too short.

    Well I figured it out… all you do say show commands :-/

  • HT5449 How do I get dictation I know when I want the word period and not a full stop.

    How do I get dictation I know when I want the word period and not a full stop.

    Try the alternatives: "point," "dot," and/or "full stop." Do any of these options produce a period for you? And, as a different punctuation test, does something such as "comma" work for you?

  • I accidently closed my window with all my app tabs, now the only window that opens was a 2nd one I had open. How do I get back all my app tabs from the previous window, and why didn't it give me the usual warning you are closing more than one tab?

    I accidently closed the window with all my frequently used app tabs, now the only window that opens was an extra one I had opened. How do I get back all my app tabs from the previous window, and why didn't it give me the usual warning you are closing more than one tab? edit
    Details

    Then the (App) tabs from that window are lost unless you can restore an older copy of the sessionstore.js file (Time Machine?) that has that lost window.
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js

  • I have "ghost" events on my printed calendars repeating daily after the original event. How can I delete these as they only appear on the printed calendars and not on the on screen version?

    I have "ghost" events on my printed calendars repeating daily after the original event. How can I delete these as they only appear on the printed calendars and not on the on screen version?

    I had a similar situation.  My credit card bill shows a charge on Sept 8 and Sept 9, both for $55.99.  I called Apple but they said that I was the victim of identity theft so I cancelled my credit card.  They have not refunded my money.

  • I want to remove the emphasis "feature" in the address bar so I can see the entire address with the same boldness, like it was before. How?

    I really cannot stand the new feature in Firefox 6 that places emphasis on the main address in the address bar making it difficult to see the entire address. I want to see the entire address. How do I change it?

    You can set the pref <b>browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled</b> to <i>false</i> on the <b>about:config</b> page.
    To open the <i>about:config</i> page, type <b>about:config</b> in the location (address) bar and press the "<i>Enter</i>" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.<br />
    If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.<br />
    *Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
    *Preferences that have been modified show as bold(user set).
    *Preferences can be reset to the default or changed via the right-click context menu.

  • How do i get my iTunes library to be showing the same playlist and songs that are on my iPhone 4s.

    How do I get my iTunes library to show the same playlist order and songs order as what is on my iPhone 4s.

    Drag it to an external drive or directly to the other computer, and if needed, launch iTunes with the Option key held down and choose that library. If it contains rented movies, those won't play on the desktop Mac.
    (120868)

  • In Textedit, how do I copy a hyperlink url, but only copy the link location and not the link text?

    Suppose I have a list of hyperlinked internet URL's. I want to extract their Internet addresses -- the link locations --  which are essentially hidden in the link text. Is there any way to select and copy the list of hyperlinks, but only copy the link locations, and not the link text?
    For example, with the links:
    The White House
    Google
    One of my previous posts
    What I really want to copy are: "http://www.whitehouse.gov/", "http://www.google.com/", and "https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2737556".

    I figured out how to do it. First, copy the hyperlinks onto a blank RTF document in TextEdit and save the file.
    Second, open the file from within TextEdit, and make sure that the box "Ignore rich text commands" is checked in the open file dialog box. In the open document, the hyperlinks from my example in my first post will look like this:
    {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1038\cocoasubrtf360
    {\fonttbl\f0\froman\fcharset0 Times-Roman;}
    {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\red0\green7\blue232;}
    {\info
    {\author Garald P. Weller}
    {\*\copyright Garald P. Weller}}\margl1440\margr1440\vieww20000\viewh14400\viewkind0
    \deftab720
    \pard\pardeftab720\sa240\ql\qnatural
    \f0\fs24 \cf0 \
    \pard\pardeftab720\sa240\ql\qnatural
    {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.whitehouse.gov/"}}{\fldrslt \cf2 \ul \ulc2 The White House}}\
    \pard\pardeftab720\sa240\ql\qnatural
    {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com/"}}{\fldrslt \cf2 \ul \ulc2 Google}}\
    \pard\pardeftab720\sa240\ql\qnatural
    {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2737556"}}{\fldrslt \cf2 \ul \ulc2 One of my previous posts}}\
    Third, use the Automator function, "Get URLs From Text," to create a service, which I called "Get URLs From Text," that receives text from any window, gets the URLs, and copies the result to the clipboard:
    Fourth, select the entire page above, and go to TextEdit > Services to activate the "Get URLs" service.
    Fifth, create a new TextEdit document, and paste the result.
    The output is exactly what I wanted, the URLs -- i.e., the link locations -- of the three web pages, without the link text.
    Another utility that will extract URLs is CopyPaste Pro, which has an innate ability to extract Internet addresses from either web pages or text pages.

  • How do I get my iPod Nano 7th Gen. to sort by Artist and not Album Artist?

    Why does my iPod Nano 7th sort by Album Artist? And how do I get it to sort/view by just purely Artist like on my iTunes?

    Check with the manufacturer of your radio and see if they have a compatible cable.

  • I just upgraded to Firefox 5. How can I get a copy of Firefox 4. The new version does not work with Skype's auto dialer.

    How can I get a copy of the previous version of Firefox? The latest version (5) does not support Skype's auto dialer. I use this tool to be more productive.

    Due to security vulnerabilities, rolling back to Firefox 4.0.1 is not recommended.
    If Firefox disabled some add-ons (especially extensions), it likely is because they include a list of compatible Firefox versions and haven't yet been updated for Firefox 5. If they worked on Firefox 4, there is a good chance they will work on Firefox 5.
    You can force Firefox to ''ignore'' add-on version restrictions by (what else) installing an add-on. Then you can test whether the add-ons important to you actually work in Firefox 5.
    [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/ Add-on Compatibility Reporter :: Add-ons for Firefox]
    After you install this add-on and restart Firefox, there will still be a message that "--- is incompatible with Firefox 5.0" but the add-on will be enabled and a Disable button will appear for that entry.
    Please report back on your results.

  • How can I get iPod touch with IOS5 to sort by song artist and not album artist?

    Since updating to IOS5 many song artist are missing. I set up iTunes to sort on song artist but when I sync, my ipod tyrs to sort by album artist not song artist. How can I get the ipod touch to sort by song artist???? Most of my Song artists show up under Various which is the entry for album artist. Please help! I have aver 9000 songs with this problem. If I can't solve this issue, I will have to return to using my Toshiba Gigabeat which allows me to sort be album artist. IOS-5 was a step backwards.

    Go to settings.
    Music> Turn off Group by Artist

  • HT4910 hello i have installed icloud on my mac, ipad and iphone. but when i create a document on my mac it does not show up on Pages file in my Ipad/ How do i get it to go from one to the other? and how do i back up to icloud from my Mac

    Hello
    I have uploaded and installed ICLOUD to all three of my devices MAC, i pad nd Iphone.
    From Ipad to Iphone i am able to retrieve PAGES documents as i write them. BUT now that i am back home i see that none of the new documents i am working on which are stored on my desktop are showing up in my PAGES file on my Ipad or Phone.
    How do i save to icloud from mac, how come i can't retrieve docs from IPAD to MAC either?
    should i back up my mac ICLOUD FIRST? and if so, Where do i back it up from?
    going mad as i edit on one during the day and the other in the evening , and would like them to sync automatically
    please can you help
    thanks
    marellaopp

    SADLY  not as i downloaded an upgrad to my original PAGES/
    i have in the meantim had to open www.icloud. then from there import the file that i am working on and then check on ipad if it uploaded/ yes it did.
    but what a waste of time as it doesn not save any changes done automatically back in the cloud....
    i am now downloading the new LION and hope that it will fix the problem
    i cant find any other way. I was lead to believe that you wrote, it saved automatically, on to the cloud, you then opened anohter device in anotother country even, and the new file was there, waiting, in its latest version.......
    and the same magic was supposed to happen in reverse.
    It doesn't/
    if i have to open a browser, go to www.icloud....why on earth did they not just leave us an icon to drop it in in that case?
    I hope the new lion will help resolve the isssue/
    any other ideas> keep em coming...thank you so much.

  • I use i-tunes for backing tracks with an acoustic band...how can I get a playlist to play one song at a time and not go to the next one until I manually select it?

    I use i-tunes for backing tracks. How can I set up a play list to play only one song at a time and not go to the next one until I manually select it?
    Thanks

    Uncheck all the songs in the playlist. iTunes will then play one song and stop.
    Regards.

  • How do I get endnote to work, I have downloaded the plugin but still not available, How do I get endnote to work, I have downloaded the plugin but still not available

    Trying to get endnote to work, I have downloaded the required plugin from Apple website but I still can't open endnote or create a list of references etc. I notice on the webpage it says endnote is sold seperately? Can anybody help with this issue?

    You have to buy the EndNote application. http://www.endnote.com/
    Or are you having problem just to add endnotes or footnotes. Read about it on pages 55-59 in the Pages User Guide. It is downloadable from your Pages Help menu.

  • How to create a Windows 8.1 Desktop icon from the Metro/Start and/or Search Tool?

    I'm a Desktop user, but often find myself needing to go to the Metro/Start and Search Tool to find programs and App(let)s in order to run them.  However, after doing this several times for many programs, I find myself wanting to create
    Desktop icons to run the programs more easily.  Is there a way to do this from the Metro/Start Icon and/or Search Tool results?
    If not, Microsoft, please consider adding the ability to do this.
    It would be very nice if this ability supported all of the icon types shown in the Metro/Start, Search Tool, and Control Panel interfaces, e.g.: Metro Apps, Desktop Programs, Charms, and Control Panel Applets.
    Currently, there is a way to pin the Metro/Start Icon to the Desktop, but the Taskbar will get very cluttered with even only a handful icons.
    It would be very nice if the desktop icon created by this also supported the context options that the program/app(let) now shows as Tasks when the icon is pinned to the Desktop Taskbar.
    Additionally, it would be nice if I could also simply drag a Pinned Taskbar icon onto the Desktop area, again, retaining it's Tasks as context menu options when the Desktop Taskbar icon is right clicked.
    This ability would be very helpful for people needing to get to programs and App(let)s, without having to resort the Metro/Start and Search Tool, because when there are a lot of Metro/Start icons, I have well over a hundred icons, it
    can be very hard to find one simply eye-balling lot.  The Search feature is much better, provided I know the name to look for and can remember it.
    Finally, this ability would be very helpful, because the kinds of desktop shortcut icons that I can create using the New Shortcut option, assuming that can I find the program/App(let)'s name and path information, do not support the context options
    that the icons could in Windows 7 when an icon is created while installing the program.
    Thanks,
    Howard Brown 
    hrb

    Hi Howard Brown,
    Thanks for your suggestions about Windows user experience. Actually, we are glad to hear more feedback
     about Windows operating system so that we can improve Windows to make it be more easier to
     use.
    As a suggestion for your current situation, you can use Windows Charm Bar to search Apps, it is also easy to use.
    Alex Zhao
    TechNet Community Support

Maybe you are looking for