So now what used to be a simple single click is now a minimum of a click and a keystroke. most beautiful models of all time. If you keep '''browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus''' set to true, when you click in an empty address bar, the default list will open automatically. It was easy, convenient, made sense, and only needed the mouse. Page titles and web addresses from your browsing history. Was it really necessary to remove the button? You can access your top sites from the drop-down list that appears when you click the address bar. When you hover over it, it says "Menu." When you type @ into the address bar, a list of all search engine shortcuts that begin with @ is shown. I tried changing the options and unchecking "top sites," but that only brings up sites I've already visited today. If you use this function a lot, which I do, those extra keystrokes add up very quickly and it's just very annoying because it used to function perfectly before. Entries in the location bar drop down list with a yellow (blue on Mac) star at the right end are bookmarks and those entries can't be removed from the location bar drop down list with the Delete key. It will also be at the top of your drop-down menu when you click in the address bar. This enables your extension to, for example, search a library of free ebooks or, as in the example above, a repository of code examples. (The only downside is that the old Yahoo toolbar used to notify me when I had new mail. The Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge allows showing suggested search results when typing in the Microsoft Edge address bar (suggestions list). As an alternative, I created an extension that adds a button to the main toolbar (it can't integrate into the old location). Avoid support scams. * Remove unwanted Top Sites, and reposition frequent icons, in the first 8 positions on the new tab page so the drop-down will more closely match what you want to see (see: [[Customize the New Tab page]]) Just start typing in the address bar. He says "I know engineers, they just love to change things." Well, nothing in particular. '''*** UPDATED FOR FIREFOX 78 ***'''

If you want to disable Top Sites, that setting is on the Options/Preferences page. Portions of this content are 19982023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Then you won't have to be typing so much in the address bar. Hello, sorry for not responding earlier, had no access to the computer. Now you can delete unwanted websites from list. There you can see an option to add a Top Site. Address bar suggestions. How can I go back to the way it was before the Firefox update screwed everything up? https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/. The Compact density option won't be displayed anymore on the "customize" page of the browser if it has not been used in the past. To try and explain in the words of a non IT person (simply a long time Firefox user). That was one of the features that brought me back to firefox from chrome. Had to use an extension to get that functionality. Please ask a new question if you need help. On the old drop-down menu, it took a very long time for a site to drop off the list once I stopped visiting it very often. To learn more, see Remove websites from the address bar suggestions. jscher2000, it would be greatly appreciated. On occasion, you may see a tip from Firefox on how you can save time while searching. All was good again. The overgrown address bar also casts a very large shadow obscuring the bookmarks. Place a check mark next to "History" and any other files that you want to delete. If you want to disable Top Sites, that setting is on the Options/Preferences page. In case you run out of things to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/. After that, to show the classic history list in the drop-down, you can either: What's happening when you click inside of the url bar? 1) Click the arrow that's located on the far right side of the Firefox address bar. Get support from our contributors or staff members. Mail App: Removing drop down email address suggestions in Browsers and Email Once you add the new Top Site, it is pinned to the page. When you start typing a search term in the address bar, you'll see icons to search instead with: other search engines, Bookmarks, Tabs, or History. Get support from our contributors or staff members. I have 4 Firefox profiles. Since the upgrade today this triangle is missing and the only way to get to the drop down menu is to highlight what ever URL is in the URL bar and use the "Backspace" key to clear the URL bar, then place the mouse in the now empty URL bar and the menu box appears and then you have to mouse click the one you want. Translation for: '(Anthropology) member of the family Hominidae (family of man), member of a primate family including humans, of hominids' in English->English dictionary. When you type into this field to enter a URL or search term, Firefox remembers the pages that you have visited and shows page suggestions in the address bar drop-down, such as sites you've bookmarked, tagged, visited before or have open in tabs. Get support from our contributors or staff members. I do know it is showing sites I've viewed recently instead of sites I visit around once or twice a week. Ill try it for a while & see. Enter search terms or a specific web address to get search suggestions,your top sites, bookmarks, history and search engines all within the same field. Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. To Enable "AutoComplete" in Firefox NOTE: This is the default setting. Why do you have to make things difficult for users.? Share this article: https://mzl.la/3vWKZoB. What makes them a Top Site? Type or paste enough text for Firefox to show the item in the drop-down. On 2 profiles I changed something in about:config and got the arrow back. In Firefox 75+, the first eight to ten shortcuts appears on the drop-down when you click the address bar, before you type any text for Firefox to match. (3) Double-click the '''browser.urlbar.update1''' preference to switch the value from true to false In Firefox 3 and above, when you start typing into the Location Bar, the autocomplete drop-down will show matching sites from your browsing history and bookmarks. Also for some reason my most visited site and the one that was at the top of the drop down list -- Google -- is now completely missing from the list and the only way to get to it is to completely type in its URL address every time --- this more than annoying, but I can't use the words I would like to be able to use. Meanwhile, if you click in the address bar and type a space (press the spacebar), Firefox will show the classic frequently visited URLs list. For instance every time i want to go to my Hotmail account, I have to type in the URL in the address bar where as I used to be able to hit the drop down arrow in the address bar, a menu would drop down and i could click on Hotmail or Bank of America, etc and be taken to the site. How can I control what results the address bar shows me? You can manually tweak the list to have your most important sites. You can inspect and modify the Top Sites setting via "Options/Preferences -> Home". I am looking for the same thing as the original poster and then changing it in the URLB section. Anybody??? I am using 16.02 version. This article describes the steps to pin, unpin, etc. I didnt have to press shift. 3) Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard. Click the button accepting the risk. Hi Mike109, the list that displays with '''browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus''' = true are your first 8 Top Sites from the new tab page. You could take a look at its features and limitations and see whether it could work for you: There are a number of ways to adjust that, including turning off search engine suggestions completely on the Options/Preferences page, Search panel. When search suggestions are enabled, the text you type is sent to the default search engine, which analyzes the words and displays a list of related searches. Really don't know why things have to be constantly changed and made more difficult for users. Get support from our contributors or staff members. You can also get to the extensions menu by pasted this into the address bar: edge://extensions/ . Press the down arrow key to highlight the item.

I did now change the options for my "top sites" to be 2 rows instead of 1 row; that added more sites to my new tab page, but they still don't show up when I click the address bar. Clicking Options will open. ''

jscher2000 [[#answer-1321824|said]]

'' If you would like to delete bookmarks fallow the instructions [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Deleting%20Bookmarks?s=how+to+delete+firefox+history&r=6&e=es&as=s Delete Bookmarks]. How can I change that number? To learn more, see Change your default search settings in Firefox. Not Expaned. When you start typing into the address bar, Firefox displays a drop-down list of suggested sites. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. How can I add more than five URLs to the address bar drop down list? In addition to the autocomplete drop-down list, Firefox will also complete the URL in the address bar. Ill try it for a while & see. The menu bar drop-down menu lists in Internet Explorer and other programs are quite responsive unlike Firefox . Search over 14 million words and phrases in more than 510 language pairs. Smart keywords do not make keyword suggestions. I visit a particular site about twice a day, and it rarely shows up on this drop down list. You can inspect and modify the Top Sites setting via "Options/Preferences -> Home". Now I have to do a bunch of workarounds to get an experience that only approximates it. You can also update Firefox or fix performance issues right from the search results. If you disable this setting, employees won't see the Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge. If you have Top Sites enabled on the Firefox Home / new tab page, the list usually will be the first eight items in the Top Sites section. I do know it is showing sites I've viewed recently instead of sites I visit around once or twice a week. I want it back. How do I get it back? this last post is the one that fixed it for me thanks for coming back and responding about it. *[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608766 Bug 1608766] - openViewOnFocus breaks most common pattern for quickly navigating toolbars with the keyboard. Content available under a Creative Commons license. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Content available under a Creative Commons license. Not sure if Id miss the Top Sites section, Im just used to looking at it. If you do that, Firefox will switch to dropping down the "Show History" list. When done, click OK. @TyDraniu If your Top Sites list is not helpful you can make it better suit your needs: Cleaning up your Top Sites list: Customize the New Tab page (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste '''URLB''' and pause while the list is filtered
It's a different sequence and takes an extra action, so it's double the effort to get the same behavior. You need to open a new tab page first and it should show "Top Sites." Deleting an address from the drop down address bar. Either way, if you want to change the default list from Top Sites to Show History, please see "(B)" in my previous reply. Scroll through the autocomplete entries and find the page in the list (type in another letter if you don't see it listed). To make this change, go to the Options page, click Home in the left column, then uncheck the Top Sites box: Was either of those what you were looking for? When I click in the address bar, it normally automatically highlights the entire url and I get a drop-down menu where I can click on an item to go to the page. Even if I don't have the url highlighted, when I click on one of the items in the drop-down menu, it still goes to the new site. For example if (say) ''''' hotmail.com ''''' was showing it would take one highlight and Backspace operation but if (say) '''''.9news.com.au/national/four-children-killed-in-townsville-road-crash-one-injured-queensland-news/59bb839f-e0e9-437b-8c2b-6bdcf03dbe04 ''''' was in the URL bar it would take a number of highlight/Backspace operations to get to an empty URL bar. This makes my experience with Firefox *extremely* worse, because now I don't have a quick access to open one of my most visited sites inside the current tab without starting typing their addresses. If I go into about:config, browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus and browser.urlbar.update1 are both set to False. Modified June 5, 2020 at 3:46:30 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer, Modified June 5, 2020 at 3:46:58 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer. Firefox is moving away from having a separate button for this. Please report suspicious activity using the Report Abuse option. I wrote an extension for a button similar to the old one, in case anyone wants to test it: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/, (The reason I didn't put the button inside the address bar with the "Page Actions" icons is that section is not displayed when the bar is empty and your cursor is inside it, for example, on a new tab.). This does not change in currently open windows, but you'll notice the change in new windows (Ctrl+n) and of course in future sessions. I really do not understand why they would have removed a facility that was so effective and so easy to use, actually I do not understand why program developers have to continually change excellently working programs unless it is simply to keep themselves in a job at the expense of the end users -- as I stated previously "if it aint broke don't fix it", or should that be --- '''"if it aint broke don't break it"''' !!!!! You can also use shortcuts to search Firefox Add-ons, Bookmarks(*), Tabs(%) and History(^). 3) Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard. This works for both browsing history and search history entries. when I click the url bar, the dropdown with mostly visited sites appears, which is really what I've been looking for. Click "data validation" drop-down from the Data tab of Excel. Modified June 7, 2020 at 10:38:36 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer. You need to expand this drop-down list and choose the . Top sites appear in the same order as the shortcut tiles in your New Tab page (you can customize them on your New Tab page). Content available under a Creative Commons license. So now I have to get an extension for firefox to make it do something that it used to do perfectly well before it was summarily removed???!!! Select "Manage Search Engines" from the drop-down list. Years ago, I used the Yahoo Toolbar until it was no longer supported. 2. You now have to repeat this process for every frequently used site that is in the menu box list. I don't like this change, either. If you don't find this, first click the Menu at the top left. For all I can see the purpose for the address bar growing and casting the shadow is for it to steal focus, and it works. 3) Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard. To customize the font that appears in a drop-down list box, use the Font and Font Size boxes on the Formatting toolbar. When I click in the address bar, it normally automatically highlights the entire url and I get a drop-down menu where I can click on an item to go to the page. But the list is too short & does not display all 10 items like it used to. What are the benefits of it? this last post is the one that fixed it for me thanks for coming back and responding about it. It seems to me that the "top sites" are looking at a different time frame of history that what was used for the old drop-down menu. Neither works. Was it change just for the sake of change? Click that to get the Menu. It's just not the same list of sites that I previously got when I clicked the arrow. Weren't we also able to scroll down and see more sites when we had the drop-down? Keep reading to learn more about the address bars powerful features. I will have to type in url's that I cannot remember without going to history. On the 2 unmodified profiles the arrow is still missing, but clicking the address bar box does display a drop down list. There is no way to increase the number from 8 at the moment. You can initiate a history search by typing a caret '^' in the location bar. Open Microsoft Edge. Is that a workable option for you? If you don't curate your Top Sites list on the Firefox Home / New Tab page in a way that makes it useful on a regular basis, you can turn off that list to prevent Firefox from using it in the address bar drop-down. Please ask a new question if you need help. I am not aware of a purely mouse-able way to have both of those things. ''If you don't care about having the Top Sites section on the new tab page, you can turn it off and that will switch the automatic drop-down list to the classic frequently visited URLs list:'' [[Hide or display content in New Tab]]. When you click in the address bar, clicking on a search engine in the drop-down list (like Google or Amazon) will autofill the address bar with a search engine shortcut (example: @amazon) so you can perform a search without having to load the search page.

2) Place your cursor over the URL you wish to manually delete. Select "Bing" from the search engine list, and then click the "Remove" button. When you click in the address bar, clicking on a search engine in the drop-down list (like Google or Amazon) will autofill the address bar with a search engine shortcut (example: @amazon) so you can perform a search without having to load the search page.

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