* type ^ to initiate a history search, See also: Opera's method of deleting URLs is very similar to Internet Explorer's. Highlight the URL in the address bar and look for an 'x' to the far right. I don't know whether you would consider an add-on but I posted one that shows a list that should be more similar to the old list of frequently visited sites. Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. Modified May 8, 2020 at 10:51:05 PM PST by toniwalker10. 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. As an alternative, I created an extension that adds a button to the main toolbar (it can't integrate into the old location). I added the sites to the Bookmarks Toolbar as a substitute. Modified June 7, 2020 at 10:34:29 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer. 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. These fine people helped write this article: Grow and share your expertise with others. If you can think of any way to bring back the triangle feature or remove the latest upgrade so that all of the features that were in the previous versions can be restored (and simply so that users like me can easily understand the process !!!) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/ (2) In the search box in the page, type or paste keyword.enabled and pause while the list is filtered. In addition to performing general web searches using your default search engine, you can also easily search specific websites directly from the Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. * 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]]) Strange that it cuts it off the top 2 instead of the bottom 2. Expanded. Weren't we also able to scroll down and see more sites when we had the drop-down? He says "I know engineers, they just love to change things." How to Enable or Disable Microsoft Edge Address Bar Drop-down Suggestions in Windows 10 Microsoft Edge is a new web browser that is available across the Windows 10 device family. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. How do I get it back? Other than 2 less entries, the 8 Top Sites are the same as the 10 "classic frequently visited URLs list". Either way, if you want to change the default list from Top Sites to Show History, please see "(B)" in my previous reply. How can I change that number? Address bar suggestions. * Type a space in the address bar The Search panel in Firefox OptionsPreferencesSettings I have 4 Firefox profiles. I can't seem to find a setting or add-on to change the sorting criteria. This works for both browsing history and search history entries. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. It will also be at the top of your drop-down menu when you click in the address bar. Regarding the drop down list of address bar history, I thought that Firefox sorts this list by most often visited sites.
Not Expaned. I will have to type in url's that I cannot remember without going to history. You should be able to click and get the entire thing highlighted and with no need to backspace. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. Clear all items for a single site Click the menu button to open the menu panel. Then you won't have to be typing so much in the address bar. 3) Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard. 3) Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard. ''ajpeavler [[#answer-1312991|said]]
'' Some things do not need changing. 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. Press. I visit a particular site about twice a day, and it rarely shows up on this drop down list. I will have to type in url's that I cannot remember without going to history. Then, press the "Delete" key. Firefox comes with a number of available search engines by default. It is designed for Windows 10 to be faster, safer, and compatible with the modern Web. Thanks for the tips. Did people actually ask for this change? If you are looking for a specific type of result, like a bookmark or open tab, you can speed up the process of finding it by typing in special characters in the address bar separated by spaces: For example, if you're looking for a page you bookmarked called Mozilla Firefox Support, you might type mozilla. All of the recently workarounds from the past month no longer work for me in FireFox 77.01 and now I'm stuck with a rather new looking but dud URLbar. Seemingly minor changes like this are annoying. Share this article: https://mzl.la/3pb4oOM. It also took several weeks for a new site to show up in the drop down menu even if I visited it daily. Now I updated to FF 77. 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. Translation for: '(Anthropology) member of the family Hominidae (family of man), member of a primate family including humans, of hominids' in English->English dictionary. ''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]]. More info in this article: [[Hide or display content in New Tab]]. If you can't find a way to display the "Show History" button, and you can't live without it, you can revert the change as follows: >What's happening when you click inside of the url bar? *[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608766 Bug 1608766] - openViewOnFocus breaks most common pattern for quickly navigating toolbars with the keyboard. Or you can type a space. Then, you control the list using the Top Sites setting on the Options/Preferences page (see Customize your New Tab page to hide or display content): Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. In case you run out of things to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/, Thanks. I tried turning off the Top Sites section of the new tab page & that works great for automatically showing the 10 frequently visited URLs in the drop down list. For the drop-down, there's currently no way to increase beyond eight Top Sites. This feature is currently only available in English. Why do you have to make things difficult for users.? If you want to disable Top Sites, that setting is on the Options/Preferences page. (B) Use the spacebar trick discussed earlier @jscher2000 Hi casale, you might not have noticed this last suggestion here: 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. 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. Now you can delete unwanted websites from list. 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"!!!!! It is designed for Windows 10 to be faster, safer, and compatible. You could take a look at its features and limitations and see whether it could work for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/, Modified June 8, 2020 at 7:37:06 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer, Cspsound, I agree. Changing How Your Files and Folders are Displayed What happened to the old list? The only way I can get the pinned sites back is the enable "Top Sites" in the Option menu, but then my dropdown menu show the wrong sites. : Customize items on your Firefox New Tab page. However if you are emailing from Gmail or Yahoo, or if Thunderbird is linked to a corporate email system like an Exchange server, those can add drop down suggestions from all previous saved email or from the entire corporate address book. When you are using a search shortcut, the keyword suggestions come from the chosen search engine. Clear search Portions of this content are 19982023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Click on the right-pointing arrow next to the folder whose subfolders you want to view. (If you click on the address bar without typing into it, a drop-down list of your most visited or pinned sites will be displayed instead.). He says "I know engineers, they just love to change things." How do I disable the "Visit website" addition to the address bar? The Top Sites & "classic frequently visited URLs list" are similar but not exact. Just start typing in the address bar. Thanks. Reach your favorite features. 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) In the search box above the list, type or paste '''URLB''' and pause while the list is filtered There must some new, updated instructions on how to delete unwanted web addresses from the drop-down list. Switching '''browser.urlbar.update1''' (as well as every other key under "update1") to false had no effect on the issue iself (it only reverted the bar appearance to the pre-update but no dropdown arrow). Was it really necessary to remove the button? You now have to repeat this process for every frequently used site that is in the menu box list. Was there some performance or functional reason for taking away the little arrow in the address bar for most visited sites??? Was it really necessary to remove the button? The latest beta debuts the "Megabar" for testing. To disable the drop-down from opening automatically when the cursor enters the address bar: (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Finally -- a new solution that actually works! Clicking on the address bar does bring down a menu of sites, but while they are sites I may visit once a day, sites such as hotmail which I might visit 10 times a day don't appear. In order for you to get Google back in your drop-down menu, you will need to follow the suggestion someone else posted to my question. ~pmt~. 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. 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. You can narrow your results down to bookmarks only by making your search string mozilla* or *mozilla. What i did is point my mouse on anything on the list in drop down, and press delete. (The only downside is that the old Yahoo toolbar used to notify me when I had new mail. I tried changing the options and unchecking "top sites," but that only brings up sites I've already visited today. * Curate the Top Sites list on the Firefox Home / new tab page by removing unwanted items, and Firefox should fill it from your history -- you also can add/pin pages you want in specific positions in the top 8 For the others, save them as Bookmarks, or even use the Bookmarks Toolbar. So now what used to be a simple single click is now a minimum of a click and a keystroke. I have been using Firefox for years and this has never happened after an upgrade. Seemingly minor changes like this are annoying. Now, to get to the sites which were previously in the drop-down menu, I have to remember and type in the first letter or two of the url; then it will come up in the auto-complete. I tried your addon but it wasn't what I was looking for either. Firefox devs absolutely must return the option to at least toggle this behaviour on or off. (If you have changed the new tab setting to a specific site, you'll need to temporarily change it back to the "Firefox Home Default" in your Options under the "Home" section.) Either way, if you want to change the default list from Top Sites to Show History, please see "(B)" in my previous reply. To disable the drop-down from opening automatically when the cursor enters the address bar: (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Please somebody have an answer; this is almost making me want to go back to IE! Find the three dots at the top right corner of the "Top Sites" section. Was either of those what you were looking for? Do not clear the browsing history usually the richest source of autocomplete entries is from the title/web address combination. 4. I thank you for that information and I will give it a try, but it is definitely not as convenient as the way it used to be up until today. (The only downside is that the old Yahoo toolbar used to notify me when I had new mail. (3) Double-click the browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus preference to switch the value from true to false. Some things do not need changing. Content available under a Creative Commons license. I find it strange that the profiles that were previously modified to display the drop down no longer do. Put me down for hating this change to the way the address bar functions now. Now I updated to FF 77. Finally -- a new solution that actually works! To learn more, see Remove websites from the address bar suggestions. Safari 4 Step 1 In the search box in the page, type or paste browser.menu.showViewImageInfo and pause while the list is filtered. Hello, sorry for not responding earlier, had no access to the computer. If you disable this setting, employees won't see the Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge. Its a guessing game where Im going when I click on one. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. This gives the user a quick way to access, for example, pages from their history or bookmarks. Content available under a Creative Commons license. There is no way to increase the number from 8 at the moment. Video of the Day Step 2 Select "Delete Browsing History" from the drop-down menu. How can I add more than five URLs to the address bar drop down list? Modified June 7, 2020 at 3:52:00 AM PST by cspsound. What makes them a Top 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. Thanks for the response though. Press the down arrow key to highlight the item. or if you want to see search suggestions although the setting "Show search suggestions in address bar results" is disabled (but the setting "Provide search suggestions" has to be enabled). Click the button accepting the risk. Chrome didn't have (and still doesn't have) anything like it. The location bar history shows my most visited websites in a small box with a scroll bar, is ther a way to expand this and make it longer(with no scroll bar), Drop down menu not showing most recently visited websites, Rate your Firefox experience, surveys and out of date messages (Heartbeat), Customize items on your Firefox New Tab page. So this is an improvement how??? When setting the address bar drop-down list size by the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults preference, the height of the list is increased according to the give value. Portions of this content are 19982023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Portions of this content are 19982023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Content available under a Creative Commons license. If you clicked on this triangle it brought up a drop down list of your most visited sites which in my case are/were (hotmail, Google, ebay, my business URL, local weather bureau, MSN news, etc), then all that you had to do was to mouse click the site you wanted to visit and it appeared in the URL bar and you were straight to it, then once in that site if you wanted to visit another frequently visited site you repeated the process again by clicking on the triangle and then from the drop down list mouse click the new site. Now double-click on this entry or right-click on it and select " Modify ". This does not seem to be the case with mine. What happened to the old list? When you hover over it, it says "Menu." A blue star icon will indicate that a matching result is a bookmark; the text Switch to Tab will indicate an open tab. "question: says it all. On the 2 unmodified profiles the arrow is still missing, but clicking the address bar box does display a drop down list. Modified June 11, 2020 at 9:41:08 PM PST by AWKjrh32r1. Seriously, WTF? Mail App: Removing drop down email address suggestions in Browsers and Email You need to open a new tab page first and it should show "Top Sites." New features are nice, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it! '''How to show the classic list of frequently visited URLs''' Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. Firefox 48 users who want visit or search options removed in the address bar have the following options instead: Option 1: Use Classic Theme Restorer Install Classic Theme Restorer from Mozilla's AMO website. Selecting these results will switch you to the already open tab instead of creating a duplicate. Thanks. Based on my limited experience with my own Firefox, the classic list is weighted a little differently so the order among the top 5-6 is different, and also one site is missing from the "frecent" list. You will notice that Firefox changes the list of suggestions from "top sites" to "most visited". I added the sites to the Bookmarks Toolbar as a substitute. This isn't as good what we had before they took away the arrow, but at least it gives us some of the sites we want to quickly reach. And that's better? However toggling '''openViewOnFocus''' worked indeed and the arrow is back. Hi Karlstens, the enlargement needs to be fixed using userChrome.css, which is a topic of many other threads. Load about:addons in Firefox's address bar afterwards. But the list is too short & does not display all 10 items like it used to. In about:config, browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus is set to True, but there is no browser.urlbar.update1. (If a site you want to pin is already listed on the page, just drag it to the top row and it will be automatically pinned. Nothing extreme, but it adds a nice touch. On occasion, you may see a tip from Firefox on how you can save time while searching. Choose the option "data validation," as shown in the image below. If your search term autocompletes to a web address that you don't want to visit, press Del, Backspacedelete or Space before pressing EnterReturn. 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. When I updated to FF 75 the down arrow in the address bar disappeared. Removing the triangle button surely could not be considered by any sane IT person as a good and/or progressive move and I am sure that if it is not rectified very soon (preferably within the next 48hrs), me along with many other long time Firefox users will start looking for a more logical browser. 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. Anybody??? jp holley funeral home farrow road. You can follow these simple steps to remove unwanted items from Windows Explorer addressbar history: 1. (A) Matches '''as you type''' from history, bookmarks, and open tabs Probably not, but I don't know of a way to restore it. Firefox is moving away from having a separate button for this. This article describes how to clear single items or all items from the address bar history. jscher2000, The autocomplete drop-down when you type into the address bar may include the following. Or you can type'' ^ ''which triggers a history search.'' You can pin multiple sites. I can go into the 2 previously modified profiles & change browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus to True which gives me a drop down list but no arrow, which is OK. As far as I'm concerned, Firefox's UX has been degrading since FF3. Really don't know why things have to be constantly changed and made more difficult for users. I want it back. When you hover over it, it says "Menu." 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? The address bar also searches through your open tabs, displaying results with the text Switch to Tab. (1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter/Return. * Keep the browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus preference set to true (if set to false, nothing drops down automatically from the address bar when you click it; [[Configuration Editor for Firefox]]) This lets you visit websites in just a few keystrokes (no mouse needed). Currently you can: Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. Click "OK" when done. I am not aware of a purely mouse-able way to have both of those things. I tried turning off the Top Sites section of the new tab page & that works great for automatically showing the 10 frequently visited URLs in the drop down list. I am not aware of a purely mouse-able way to have both of those things. 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. button. Now, after the update, this button is gone (pic related). Usually, if I type a couple characters, the address I'm looking for shows up and I can either arrow down to it and press Enter or if it's further down, click it with the mouse. The big change is a redesign of the address bar, which comes with some tweaks to how searches work . If you enable or don't configure this setting, employees can see the Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge. (If you have changed the new tab setting to a specific site, you'll need to temporarily change it back to the "Firefox Home Default" in your Options under the "Home" section.) Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more. Go to Run (Windows key + R together), and enter: regedit You should now see a new Registry Editor window pop up. section of the following article: [[Address bar autocomplete in Firefox - Search your bookmarks, history and tabs]]. Hi ajpeavler, the "frequent sites" list should not be limited to recent sites unless a bunch of old history got cleared. Please report suspicious activity using the Report Abuse option. Step 3 The {Delete Browsing History" window pops up. Now I have to do a bunch of workarounds to get an experience that only approximates it. My browser experience is completely broke without it.Tip: If you don't want to use the mouse or a search shortcut does not appear in the list, you can type in the shortcut or just the first part (example: @a or @amazon) then press EnterReturn or and type in your search term. Earlier in the thread I noted that if you turn off the Top Sites section of the new tab page, then the automatic list switches to the frequent URLs list.Smart keywords do not make keyword suggestions. 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"''' !!!!! That arrow was probably the main reason why I was still using Firefox over other browsers. 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Meanwhile, if you click in the address bar and type a space (press the spacebar), Firefox will show the classic frequently visited URLs list. I want it back. 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]. It'll confirm, click on I'll be careful, I promise! 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. Avoid support scams. Firefox 3.6 Address Bar Sorting in Drop-Down [ 16 Answers ] Regarding the drop down list of address bar history, I thought that Firefox sorts this list by most often visited sites. You can inspect and modify the Top Sites setting via "Options/Preferences -> Home". (A) Work with the shorter Top Sites list 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. 2. The list I used to get when I clicked the arrow is a different list than what shows when I click directly in the address bar. (Edit: Updated first screenshot). Please ask a new question if you need help. If the url isn't highlighted when you click in the address bar, try double-clicking or triple-clicking. Hi cspsound, just for background, I'm a support volunteer and didn't make these user interface decisions. it would be greatly appreciated. - - - - It was easy, convenient, made sense, and only needed the mouse. The Firefox address bar displays the URL (web address) for the page that you are visiting. Probably not, but I don't know of a way to restore it. How do they become a Top Site if not frequently visited? There are a number of ways to adjust that, including turning off search engine suggestions completely on the Options/Preferences page, Search panel. '''*** UPDATED FOR FIREFOX 78 ***''' 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 I am using 16.02 version. More info in this article: Customize your New Tab page to hide or display content. More info in this article: user104147805413306348376805769878442569366, drop down menu and bookmakrs disappeared when I refreshed. Click that to get the Menu. To Enable "AutoComplete" in Firefox NOTE: This is the default setting. Page titles and web addresses from your browsing history. This thread was closed and archived. More info in this article: Customize items on your Firefox New Tab page, I don't know whether you would consider an add-on but I posted one that shows a list that should be more similar to the old list of frequently visited sites.