URL Bar Suggest

How can I turn off the suggestion element in Safari - I want to be able to type the url without a huge drop down list of suggestions popping up every time I do so.
I use the favourite bar for most of the favourite sites so don't need a drop down when I type a URL which is mostly stuff that's not in favourites.
Can't find anything at all in the help on the browser

You can't delete your account. Just stop using it is all you can do.
If you don't like how Safari works send feedback via Safari menu > Report Bugs to Apple...
Everyone here is just a fellow user like yourself so not much we can do. As mentioned earlier, if the autofill is bothering you that much, just type a space character before the address.

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The URL bar autocomplete feature is not working correctly, does anyone else have this problem?

I was running version 9.x and had this problem, so I have just updated to Firefox 11 but this is not helping.
The issue is that the URL bar will not let me type a new address in some cases - prefering instead to refer me to a previously visited address. Perhaps it would be better if I gave an example:
I am trying to go to a site I haven't visited before, e.g. holden.com.au
I type 'h', and the URL bar suggests that I go to my Hotmail login page (the URL for this starts with 's'), and autofills the rest of the far (so now I am in the situation where I have an address in the bar starting with 's'). This means I can't continue entering the intended address.
Can this be fixed, or is it just an issue for me?

I have resolved this issue by going into about:config and toggling the browser.urlbar.autoFill setting. I think the default setting must have been changed in a recent update.

[suggestion]: reload page icon at the beginning of the url bar

Greetings all,
I suggest to place the "reload page icon" at the beginning of the URL bar (and not at the end of it like done as far as Version 6.0 build 7536.25).
This way seems more coherent (to me):
* not far away with the other page control (close/reduce/iconize)
* not far away of any action if needed to type something like a new URL
my 2 cents,
lem

For the Search Bar:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Back%20and%20forward%20or%20other%20toolbar%20items%20are%20missing#w_restoring-the-default-toolbar-set
If you don't see the Search bar after you RESTORE the Default Toolbar Set:
View > Toolbars > Customize and drag the SEARCH BAR to wherever you prefer.
For Refresh Button:
It has been incorporated into the far right end of the Address Bar. When you load a page, it is a "Stop" button, when it finished loading, it turns into a "Reload" button.
If you want it to be somewhere else in the Toolbar, you can drag it out to wherever you want. If that doesn't work, try this:
View > Toolbars > Customize and drag the Refresh/Stop icon into the window, then drag it back out to wherever you prefer.

How to delete the history shown in the URL bar?

I just deleted the Browsing history to get rid of all the very old suggestions the URL makes.
It doesnt help.
The URL bar shows automatically even pages I havent visited for a year.
I think there is a lot of old stuff accumulating I want to get rid of.
So, how to delete the browsing history so that also that naggy URL bar starts with a clear slate?

I don't know if this is the same thing, but I had the problem of clearing my history and the location bar would show URL's that I hadn't gone to in a long time. I think most of them had the yellow star to the right of the address which was supposed to mean they were bookmarks. However, I had never bookmarked these sites. My solution was to go to Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks. Expand "Bookmarks Menu" on the left side and go to "Recently Bookmarked". In there I deleted everything that I didn't want as a bookmark. Now the sites no longer show up in the location bar. Hope that helps for you or someone.

How do I get my url bar to show the websites I visited before? I did not clean my history or anything. Nothing shows anymore.

Hey! I have restarted my computer during the night and this morning, when I opened firefox, the sites I visited before were not showing anymore in my url bar. I did not reset any history or anything. After visiting them too, they don't seem to save in my url bar (they still don't show after I visited them). All my url bar is showing are "suggestions".
Please help, thanks :)

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
You can check these prefs on the about:config page and reset user set (bold) TEXT prefs via the right-click context menu to the default value.
*browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled
*browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
You can open the about:config page via the location bar.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

Safari 5 URL bar searches page title in addition to URL

I just upgraded to Safari 5. Now whenever I start typing a URL in the URL bar, it gives me suggestions based on the page's title in addition to the page's URL. I want to disable this new "feature" and go back to the old functionality where it only suggests pages by URL.
Thanks.

I agree, I do NOT like this new feature. Say I earlier went to an eBay sub-page, now I want to go to the eBay home page. I start typing e-b-a-y and it autofills the URL for the eBay sub-page I visited earlier.
I do not want to go to that one, so I press "delete", which simply removes the autofill suggestion and also the "y" in ebay, so I type the "y" again and the same suggested page fills in.
So now in order to go to the eBay home page I must type "ebay.com" whereas before I could just type "ebay".
Before Safari 5 these "already visited pages" would show up as a drop-down window, which I could scroll down to and choose if that's where I wanted to go. Now, though, that they're coming up in the address bar I'm forced to go there or type in the complete URL.
How can I turn this feature off. I know there's a Terminal command to do it, because there are Terminal commands to turn on and off many other features of Safari.
I do not wish to simply use Private Browsing because that turns off suggestions from my Bookmarks.
Help!!
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My URL Bar is blacked out on Windows XP

I don't know what the computer decided to do, but sometime after I went to bed last night and when I woke up this morning Firefox seems to have changed.
The URL bar where you type in the web address now blacks out the URL so that I cannot see what is typed up there. I found other links to the same issue
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1001447?esab=a&as=aaq
However, my problem is that I am on Windows XP whereas all the fixes I can find are for other OS. It suggests going into the about:config and altering gfx.xrender.enabled but when I search I do not have an xrender option available. I assume this is because I am on Windows.
So can anybody help me figure out what needs to be changed on the settings for an XP user to solve this issue?

In Firefox version 33, Firefox has implemented a new, faster way of loading webpages. This new feature is called OMTC.
There was an issue with black screens/boxes but it has been addressed in Firefox 33.0.1. The latest version is now 33.0.2. Please update to the latest version of Firefox if you are not currently on it:
* https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/
* or for all versions and languages: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
Alternatively, if you are in Firefox and can see your menus:
* Help (or [[Image: New Fx Menu]] > [[Image: Help-29]]) > About Firefox
If you are finding that there are still problems, try disabling graphics hardware acceleration. Since this feature was added to Firefox, it has gradually improved, but there still are a few glitches.
You might need to restart Firefox in order for this to take effect, so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).
Then perform these steps:
# Click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and select ''Options''
#In the Firefox Options window, click the ''Advanced'' tab, then select ''General''.
#In the settings list, you should find the ''Use hardware acceleration when available'' checkbox. Uncheck this checkbox.
#Now, restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.
Additionally, please check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in the following Knowledge base articles:
* [[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]
* [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]
Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!
Thank you.

URL bar completely unresponsive to 'go'.

It's hard to describe this properly, but the URL bar allows input of text but nothing more. Hitting enter or clicking the arrow to go to the site or search query entered does literally nothing. Any bookmark suggestions that appear cannot be put into the URL bar text field but I cannot go to them. I can access the bookmarks via the bookmarks bar, however. The search bar still works as normal. This problem seems to have started immediately after updating to Firefox 31.0 on both Windows 8.1 and Mac OS X 10.9.
Thank you in advance.

Does the OS load at all?
If you get to a desktop, put in the disc.
Open the Mac OS Installer DVD.
In the top Menu bar choose the utilities menu and restart.

Google Search text prediction in URL Bar

Hello,
Is it possible to enable Google Search text prediction during typing words in URL Bar?
Now I need to hit ENTER in URL Bar if I want to search some word or use very useless Search Bar :-(
Any other browser like Chrome, Safari, Opera has one bar for anything (URL and SEARCH) with text prediction as well.

You probably are getting Google search suggestions in the 3 search bars (on the navigation toolbar, built-in home page, and built-in new tab page). If not, you can turn on search suggestions using one of these 3 methods:
* right-click the Search Bar (the one on the main navigation toolbar) > Show Suggestions
* click the magnifying glass icon on the Search Bar > Change Search Settings, then check the box for Provide search suggestions
* click the magnifying glass icon for the search box on the built-in home page or new tab page > Manage Search Engines, then check the box for Provide search suggestions
Those do not appear in the address bar yet. For now, you might want to check out this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/omnibar/

The address bar in firefox will not let me use down arrow in menu boxes on any website or in the url bar

The address bar in firefox will not let me use down arrow in menu boxes or in the url bar. Usually if I click on the down arrow in the url bar, my most common websites pop up... now it won't show me them...
It is also happening in any website I use via Fire fox. I don't have this problem with windows or Internet Explorer. Even the down arrow box below this.. asking "this happened" won't let me see the choices.. it just flashes by.

Make sure that the Location Bar is not set to "Nothing": Tools > Options > Privacy > Location Bar: When using the location bar, suggest: History,Bookmarks,History and Bookmarks
See [[Smart Location Bar]]

Default action upon url bar selection

I only use my desktop bookmarks both on my desktop and my mobile. Yet everytime I want to access my desktop bookmarks toolbar from my mobile, I have to click the URL field and then 3 more press until I reach what I want. couldn't you give a option for default view when pressing the URL bar on mobile. therefore I could choose to reach by default my desktop bookmarks toolbar. it would be a huge gain of time. thanks

Hi,
Thanks for using the Firefox beta and for this suggestion, I will pass it on to the devs. What I do, is I Quit Firefox when I'm done, so that I get the about:home screen when I start, which includes a list of my sync'd tabs right there at the bottom of the first screen I see. (Just scroll down to see the short list or tap Show all tabs to see the full list. Not sure if that will help you, thanks again for this feedback.
Regards,
Michelle

Where did my URL bar go?

I've been using Safari on my 10.3.9 eMac with Yahoo as my homepage since that is what I use for my email accounts. All of a sudden my google search engine and URL bar disappeared and the only way I can go to sites that aren't bookmarked already is use Yahoo's lame search engine to try and find them. I have to do the same thing to go to google's great search engine. Is Yahoo trying to dominate my web surfing experience? Any suggestions of how I can have a home page (I don't care if it's not Yahoo) that gives me easy access to my Yahoo email, Google's search engine, and a URL bar I can just type in web sites? Thanks for any help.

If you entire toolbar disappeared, that can be restored by choosing the View > Show Toolbar menu item in Safari.
But if your Address bar and Search bar disappeared, you can restore those by choosing View > Customize Toolbar… from the Safari menu bar and dragging them back into place.
Mulder

Can no longer enter data in the address bar {url Bar}, it correctly follows data from google search bar. It was a 1 month old installation so not a lot of complications

I was not adding anything to Firefox. I Refused tool bars embedded in several application installs on this new computer. Was working fine. Then had a problem with Google search, restored default values and re-tooled Firefox. At this point all worked fine. Then my url, address bar changed color to the same color as the program shell, a grey brown as opposed to the white it was before. With the change in color it no longer allows me to change the data showing in the bar. I can not delete or add data. I used to add a url and navigate to the domain. Now I can not

Greetings,
TY for the reply, the information was enlightening to be sure. I never knew safe mode was an option with Firefox. I have so many tasks running that I didn't want to shut things down. What I did is turn off some of the last plug-ins I installed. That did not fix the problem at least in the first look. What happened next was very interesting none the less. I had a moment of mouse spastic wrist syndrome and accidentally moved a tab in such a way that it opened in a new window. The URL bar was white and editable. So I moved all my tabs to the new window and everything works as it should. I have restarted Firefox this morning and it came back with the bar editable and I am speechless to understand what I may have done to correct the problem if anything ??

What do the globe and triangle with exclamation point mean on the URL bar and why do they sometimes change while surfing a page?

I have always about this, as I've seen these more than once along multiple versions of Firefox. I'm well aware that the lock means the site is 'verified' though I don't know exactly what that entails. More recently, I've noticed that many websites either have the lock or else the globe with the markings on it which says that the connection to the site in question is 'unencrypted', but I don't know what that means. Sometimes this will change between pages on the same website. What I find stranger is that sometimes a a single page on one site will go from the lock to the triangle with the exclamation point in it. Now from what I can tell, it means something similar to the globe, as they seem to both state the same basic thing, that the website doesn't supply identity information and the connection isn't encrypted. What I want to know is how and why this happens, and sometimes even while still on the same page. I've encountered this on three different versions of firefox. The 24 esr, 28.0, and version 34. (Not all on one computer, mind. Though I believe it's possible to have multiple instances of Firefox on the same machine as I know someone mentioned being able to do that on another thread and I'd love to know how that's done if anyone can answer it.) These versions of firefox were on 8.1, and two distinct versions of XP from two different machines. Is this an odd glitch, or is something else going on there and if so, how does one fix it? So far it's happened to me twice on my own computer, once on a fiction website, and as of tonight, once on youtube. On the former, the switch happened on a single page, while on Youtube it changed from one page on the search bar to the actual channel of something in question and back again. Closing out the tab and doing a quick clearing of history seemed to work fine on youtube. The fiction website, not so much, though I haven't seen the triangle thing come back again, as everything there seems to be the globe. So far anyway. However it has come up before on various computers in the past that I've used with various firefox versions, as I've said. Can anyone explain what this is and how to fix it if it is indeed a problem?

''jscher2000 [[#answer-707094|said]]''
<blockquote>
The green padlock means your connection is HTTPS (encrypted) and the certificate identifies a particular site operator. Certificate issuers demand special verification for the Extended Validation (EVSSL) certificate that generates a green padlock.
The gray padlock means your connection is HTTPS (encrypted) but the certificate cannot establish the operator of the site one way or another. No special identification is required to get this certificate.
The exclamation point triangle symbols may indicate that the connection is partially encrypted -- some content is the page was sent over an open connection -- or recently it may indicate that the site uses such easily cracked encryption that you should treat it as providing no protection.
And the point of all this is?! Simply this: if your web traffic is ''not encrypted'', it can be read by others. That's why login pages and sites dealing in your personal or sensitive information should always show a padlock in the address bar. If it's not there, be concerned.
If a normally secure site suddenly shows a mixed content icon, try reloading the page (Ctrl+r or to re-request fresh copies of cached files use Ctrl+Shift+r).
</blockquote>
As it happens, I have tried the refresh thing. It doesn't always work on sites where this sudden changeover occurs. The weird thing is that, again, this happens at random and I've seen it occur over multiple versions of firefox, past and present, so it's not just relegated to just the three main ones I have most recently seen it on.
Now what makes this even stranger is that I have seen a few pages on the fiction website (www.fimfiction.net to be specific) where the grey padlock at the very least shows up on a page, but then suddenly will go to the triangle. Not all of these pages have mixed content or even any content at all beyond simple text. A few have pictures or clickable links, but I usually avoid clicking on the links if I don't know and trust the website. More recently though, the near-entirety of the site has gone to the globe, when before it was the grey padlock. I think the one thing that remains padlocked is its login section. Is it just that the website needs to update its certificates? If so, I can probably just send the site runner a message about that.
I dunno what to do with youtube when it shows up though other than just closing out the tab it's on, clearing my browser history, and reopening the site. It happens rarely with youtube, but it's not unheard of, and it follows along every page on the site once it pops up in one page at all until I shut down that tab. And this is a multiple version thing. These are the two sites where I encounter the issue the most as it's one of only a handful of websites I go to aside from an image gallery which is typically very good about safety. Or as much as it can be, at any rate. The only other site I frequent, www.fanfiction.net (probably the oldest fiction website still active today, and not to be confused with fimfiction) has the grey padlock at all times, aside from when I log into the site. I've used the https: prefix most times when going to a site the first time, and firefox has typically then used that prefix anytime I just enter the general website address in the URL bar, but sometimes it doesn't. Is that partially responsible for why I have seen the padlock switch to the triangle sometimes? I know the link that cor-el posted says that by default from version 16 up, mixed content is blocked by default and I don't think I've ever touched that in the options section of the tools, so what exactly do I do here? Just ignore it, or just keep hitting refresh or what? It doesn't happen all the time, after all, but it does still get annoying.

How can I get rid of by back/foward buttons and move my url bar to the right of my tabs, as I had in the previous version of firefox?

Before I updated Firefox, my tabs were on the same line as the search/url bar, and I didn't have the back/forward buttons. I liked the simple design I had, but now it doesn't seem like I can go back to that setting.

There is an extension which gives you a lot of control over your toolbar layout. It is described and linked in this article: [[How to make the new Firefox look like the old Firefox]]. Can you get the result you're looking for?

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