The "Awesome Bar" is not working. It does not recall anything from the Bookmarks
Just updated to new Firefox. In the past, when I would start to type a site in the address bar firefox would complete it as it was already in my bookmarks. But now it does not do anything. It just sits there waiting for me to complete the address. I could start to type Netf and it automatically finish Netflix.com
Why is this happening. Also, for the first couple days of the new version I had to go back into Tools, Options and reset things at least 3 or 4 times before they would finally stay the way I wanted them.
I would tell it Never Remember History and after while I would look and it would say, Remember History. I wanted a Blank Start page, and it kept changing it. It's okay now but the Awesome Bar is not working at all.
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Do your bookmarks show up in the auto-suggest drop-down list?
If not: Under Options > Privacy, in the bottom section, does it still show that Firefox should suggest Bookmarks in the Location bar?
If auto-suggest works but the autofill isn't happening, you could double-check that it has not been disabled here:
(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 autof and pause while the list is filtered
(3) If the browser.urlbar.autoFill preference is bold and "user set" to false, double-click it to switch its value back to the default value of true. That should work in new tabs.
It's it already true, hmm, I wonder whether this is a private browsing issue? (I didn't test with automatic private browsing.)
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Chosen Solution
Do your bookmarks show up in the auto-suggest drop-down list?
If not: Under Options > Privacy, in the bottom section, does it still show that Firefox should suggest Bookmarks in the Location bar?
If auto-suggest works but the autofill isn't happening, you could double-check that it has not been disabled here:
(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 autof and pause while the list is filtered
(3) If the browser.urlbar.autoFill preference is bold and "user set" to false, double-click it to switch its value back to the default value of true. That should work in new tabs.
It's it already true, hmm, I wonder whether this is a private browsing issue? (I didn't test with automatic private browsing.)
Hi, thanks for your reply. The awesome bar started working again without my doing anything. It actually started after an automatic update of Firefox. Had several bugs that I had to keep an eye on. For example: In Tools/Options/Privacy, it kept defaulting to Firefox will always remember history, and there was a continuing problem with the start page. But things seem to have settled down and are holding. Haven't had any unexpected changes for a while.