Which behavior do you want?

An error message instead of opening a page with search results?

Did you check the value of the keyword.URL pref?

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.URL
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search

See also "Prevent Firefox from automatically completing URLs":

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/search-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs-awesome-bar

none of those address the problem. If I enter for example 'yahoo" and press control/enter, I expect it to be resolved to wwww.yahoo.com and the page accessed. Instead the get search results for yahoo. I have checked the various keywords to insert the prefix and suffix and they are correct. I have also corrected the specific keyword that should inhibit this behavior, see question. If I enter the full url I also get a search page.

I also tried to delete or change the contents of keyword.url but could not see any option to delete so tried to modify it but would not save. The original contents would not be changed but persisted. I am doing this on a new machine where I just installed FF.

I think what you want is BrowseByName, where you can type in a website's name, and Firefox runs a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search in the background and gives you the first result. Correct? Try installing https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browse-by-name

No that is not what I want. As I have explained twice, I wnt the entered URL to be accessed. Not a search page, not 'lI feel lucky just the entered URL. I have read the other questions on this, I have adjusted the keywords but not fixed it.

So you want to type in yahoo, press Enter, and have yahoo.com come up? Yahoo is not a URL. www.yahoo.com is a URL. I'm failing to understand what you want here.

If you are having an issue where control+enter is not adding the www and .com, then you should reset Firefox Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings

I reinstalled everything on a new machine and the problem has gone. Thanks for those that responded but it would have been more helpful if you read my question fully and not bits of it. No one addressed the fact that the keywords were correct as per the documentation but produced the wrong behavior. I was told to read the documentation after I said I read it and followed it, was again of no help. I explained over and over that entering the full URL took me to a search page. I told you that cont/enter did not resolve to the full URL even though the keywords controlling this were correct. I can only assume that the Dell machine I started on was modified by Dell to cause this behavior since I reinstalled on a new HP without this problem.

What is the current value of keyword.URL in case you want to use a search if the DNS look up fails?

I keep keyword.enabled set to false because I do not want to end up on a different page or a search page in case of a typo or if the page or domain doesn't exist.
Then I can decide if I want to do a Google search or not.

If you only want a fixup (www. and .com) and not a search then either set keyword.enabled to false or set keyword.URL to an empty string.

There are other possibilities is you want to perform a search in case a DNS look up with the prefix and post-fix fails.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.URL
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search

• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Location+bar+search