How to stop location bar autocomplete from using top-level domains?
I love the location bar autocomplete - or at least, I used to. I had it trained to the point where typing one letter was enough to bring up the pages I used most often. But now with Firefox 12, it ignores all that and favors top-level domains.
For instance: I haven't been to the front page of YouTube in years; there's no reason to go there. When I would type "www.y" into the location bar, it would pop up to the one video I visited most often - and that's exactly what I WANTED it to do. Now it defaults to "YouTube.com" and I have to scroll down to find the actual page I want. Same deal with Wikipedia: I don't want to go to the front page, I want to go to the page I use most often for research.
So basically, what do I need to change to get the location bar autocomplete to stop giving me top-level domains I don't want, and go back to giving me the subpages I spent years training it to favor? Scrolling down to the right entry is a waste of time when typing one letter and hitting enter should be enough to do it...
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It still does that, you just need to "train" it again. ;) It goes to the page you visited the most/last as a first option. Also, you can delete any unwanted urls it shows by arrow down to it and pressing delete. Hope this helps.
Modified by KeiraTG
No, it really does favor the top-level domains over any other, and no amount of training has been able to fix that.
For instance, the YouTube example I gave: I have *never* been to the front page of YouTube on this computer; that's not "on this installation of Firefox," but "on this computer, period." I've never visited that page, but that's what the autocomplete chooses to fill in.
And I can't remove it from the drop-down menu, because it doesn't appear there. Thus, there's no way to arrow down to it. It's only in the location bar, and I have to arrow down to get to the right entry...
I just typed "yo" in the location bar and the last clip i viewed on youtube is the first in the list. I meant the locationbar with the dropdown, as it drops down if you type something there, in there you can arrow down, press delete and it's gone.
And I meant the actual location bar, not the dropdown menu below it. The dropdown is fine: it's the autocomplete in the location bar that needs to be fixed...
Modified by yogore
Okay, so now that we're on Firefox 13 instead of 12, it's time to ask this again: how do you make the location bar's autocomplete stop favoring top-level domains?