If you keep '''browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus''' set to false, you need to press the down arrow key in an empty address bar to open the list. 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. You can select one by pressing or by clicking it. 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. By default, Firefox 77 drops down a list automatically when the cursor enters the address bar. There are a number of ways to adjust that, including turning off search engine suggestions completely on the Options/Preferences page, Search panel. Content available under a Creative Commons license. Get support from our contributors or staff members. 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. What makes them a Top Site?
@TyDraniu 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. 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. 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. One common denominator is that everything will be a big larger in the new interface. 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.). On the 2 unmodified profiles the arrow is still missing, but clicking the address bar box does display a drop down list. I don't know why the sites are different that what I saw previously in the drop-down menu. Open the Firefox browser. 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"''' !!!!! Please ask a new question if you need help. If your search term autocompletes to a web address that you don't want to visit, press Del, Backspacedelete or Space before pressing EnterReturn.
If you have been ignoring this section, it's probably confusing to see this list. In about:config, browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus is set to True, but there is no browser.urlbar.update1. 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. Now with the latest update the drop down has gone. You can customize the Top Sites section of the Firefox Home / new tab page by pinning your own pages, dismissing those you don't want, etc. ''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]]. ''cor-el [[#answer-1305219|said]]''
For the drop-down, there's currently no way to increase beyond eight Top Sites. If you would like to delete bookmarks fallow the instructions Delete Bookmarks. "hi, firefox 75 introduced a change where a dropdown with lists of your top site will now appear when you just click somewhere into the address bar (so the need for a dedicated button for this is no longer present)." Get support from our contributors or staff members. Not Expaned. Firefox comes with a number of available search engines by default. (The only downside is that the old Yahoo toolbar used to notify me when I had new mail. *[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608766 Bug 1608766] - openViewOnFocus breaks most common pattern for quickly navigating toolbars with the keyboard. Some things do not need changing. Chrome didn't have (and still doesn't have) anything like it. Or you can type a space. For the others, save them as Bookmarks, or even use the Bookmarks Toolbar. Hit the Space-key on the keyboard after activating the address bar. These fine people helped write this article: Grow and share your expertise with others. Then, press the "Delete" key.
To do so, head to the Preferences option on the Firefox menu (three bars, top right), then choose Restore previous session under Startup on the General tab. The address bar changed to dropping down the first 8 Top Sites from the new tab page, and removed the frequently visited sites list button. Years ago, I used the Yahoo Toolbar until it was no longer supported. In case you run out of things to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/, Thanks. 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. For more information, see AllowAddressBarDropdown browser policy. 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:
Portions of this content are 19982023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Other changes also eliminate the need for a lengthy site address. 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. 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. 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. How can I add more than five URLs to the address bar drop down list? We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Now with the latest update the drop down has gone. If the selected URL is very long so that it extends past the end of the URL line, you might have to highlight the showing part of the URL and "Backspace" it and once that part is cleared highlight the next part and clear it and so on until the URL bar is completely clear. Go to Run (Windows key + R together), and enter: regedit You should now see a new Registry Editor window pop up. 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. Hi Karlstens, the enlargement needs to be fixed using userChrome.css, which is a topic of many other threads. How can I go back to the way it was before the Firefox update screwed everything up?
Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more. By default, when you type search terms in the address bar, the list under it shows search suggestions from the default search engine, and pages (bookmarks, history, open tabs) where every search term is part of the title, part of a tag or part of the web address (URL). I will have to type in url's that I cannot remember without going to history. Neither works. As far as I'm concerned, Firefox's UX has been degrading since FF3. You'll need to type the url or copy and paste. This does not seem to be the case with mine. For example, if you type "suppo", Firefox may fill in "rt.mozilla.org/" to complete the address "support.mozilla.org" if you've visited that site before. (A) Work with the shorter Top Sites list
I don't remember for sure, but it seems like I could scroll if I didn't see the site I was looking for. Changing How Your Files and Folders are Displayed I do know it is showing sites I've viewed recently instead of sites I visit around once or twice a week. 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. * Top Sites disabled: the automatic list is the classic "Show History" frequently visited URLs list. And that's better? 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. Select "Bing" from the search engine list, and then click the "Remove" button. Page titles and web addresses from your browsing history. 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. Or I've been advised to hold down the "Control" key. firefox userchrome css location. When I was creating the issue, this behavior was different, i.e. For the others, save them as Bookmarks, or even use the Bookmarks Toolbar. In Firefox 83+ you can click the History search button on the bottom of the address bar drop-down to show your frequently visited URLs. Seriously, WTF? Hello all! Hi ajpeavler, the "frequent sites" list should not be limited to recent sites unless a bunch of old history got cleared. Deleting an address from the drop down address bar. I expanded the Top Sites to display 2 rows or 16 sites & there is no way some of those listed are more popular than other websites I frequently visit. Proton will remove some options from Firefox, or hide them. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/. AWKjrh32r1
To get that back, change browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus back to true in about:config. 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. For some users, these will be listed under a Firefox Suggest label (see Firefox Suggest FAQ). It's just not the same list of sites that I previously got when I clicked the arrow. Sometimes dynamically generated search engine suggestions crowd out history. Firefox devs absolutely must return the option to at least toggle this behaviour on or off. Now I have to do a bunch of workarounds to get an experience that only approximates it. Type or paste enough text for Firefox to show the item in the drop-down. Find the three dots at the top right corner of the "Top Sites" section. The address bar will match on the name you give the bookmark and also tags associated with the bookmark. Before today when you opened Firefox and your home page loaded, at the RH end of the URL bar was a small inverted triangle. If you enable or don't configure this setting, employees can see the Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge. Search Bar. Removing it was completely uncalled for. The latest beta debuts the "Megabar" for testing. Meanwhile, if you click in the address bar and type a space (press the spacebar), Firefox will show the classic frequently visited URLs list. The arrow changes to a downward-pointing arrow, and a drop-down list of the subfolders will be displayed. I don't know why this trend of getting rid of that arrow in browsers started, but I'm not a fan of it. As you type a web address or search term in the address bar, the URL autocomplete feature automatically finishes what youre typing based on matching websites in your bookmarks, history, or popular websites. Press. Content available under a Creative Commons license. All was good again. The OLD advice for this problem, listed below, is NOT working. The highlighted URL will be deleted. On the 2 previously modified profiles the arrow is gone along with the drop down list. Get support from our contributors or staff members. To change your default search engine, see Change your default search settings in Firefox. Some things do not need changing. When you see the page you want, just click on it or use the up and down arrows on your keyboard to highlight it and then press EnterReturn. 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 way, pages you visit all the time will show up at the top of the list, often after typing only one character. (B) '''"Show History" list''' previously accessed with the wide "v"-like button
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Allow sync favorites between Microsoft browsers: Requires Windows 10, version 1703 or later. How do I permanently remove Bing from Firefox? Was there some performance or functional reason for taking away the little arrow in the address bar for most visited sites??? I will have to type in url's that I cannot remember without going to history. Mozilla released Firefox 75.0 Stable on Tuesday and the main change in the release was the revamping of the browser's address bar. What happened to the old list?
Its a guessing game where Im going when I click on one. I am using 16.02 version. 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. 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. Thank You! 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.
Clear search It will also be at the top of your drop-down menu when you click in the address bar. How do I get it back? Mail App: Removing drop down email address suggestions in Browsers and Email 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. Click the button accepting the risk. I am looking for the same thing as the original poster and then changing it in the URLB section. You can inspect and modify the Top Sites setting via "Options/Preferences -> Home". Type or paste enough text for Firefox to show the item in the drop-down. 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. 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]. If you are using Beta, Developer Edition, or Nightly, the "update1" preference is no longer available. user104147805413306348376805769878442569366, drop down menu and bookmakrs disappeared when I refreshed.
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???!!! It'll open Registry Editor. Seriously, WTF? I tried your addon but it wasn't what I was looking for either. Currently you can:
Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. Click the button accepting the risk. If Firefox is not showing any matches as you type, make sure you have those turned on as described in the "How can I control what results the address bar shows me?" OMG! In about:config, browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus is set to True, but there is no browser.urlbar.update1.
In the address bar of Firefox type about:config, and click/tap on the I'll be careful, I promise button. Click the button accepting the risk. Note: if you want to return "View Image Info" to your menu, here's the preference for that (Firefox 89+): In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Anybody??? This is probably not the final implementation, but I haven't been reading the details of the full plan. Having this functionality removed is a serious PITA for my everyday browser workflow. What are the benefits of it? section of the following article: Address bar autocomplete suggestions in Firefox. How to show the classic list of frequently visited URLs. One of the changes expands the address bar automatically when a New Tab Page is opened. There is a preference for that: (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Now type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter box. Firefox devs absolutely must return the option to at least toggle this behaviour on or off. 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. When you start typing in the address bar, Firefox suggests relevant popular searches as provided by search engines like Google, Bing, etc. * Top Sites enabled: the automatic list is the first 8 top sites from the new tab page, which you can customize to your liking by pinning/unpinning/adding/removing sites (see [[Customize the New Tab page]])
All was good again. You will notice that Firefox changes the list of suggestions from "top sites" to "most visited". 1) In the dropdown, use the arrow keys to select the old history item, and use Del key 2) Copy the new url and paste it into location bar, and go there (do that 3 times) 3) Change the bookmark. Then, press the "Delete" key.
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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. 2) Place your cursor over the URL you wish to manually delete. Can I customize the "top sites"? I'm not sure what happens further with that issue (and the bug that @cor-el posted a link to), but at least I'm grateful to have the arrow back. (B) Use the spacebar trick discussed earlier. 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. The Top Sites & "classic frequently visited URLs list" are similar but not exact. How do they become a Top Site if not frequently visited? (1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter/Return. In case you run out of things to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/. To get results from Google each time you search, you can make Google your default search engine. I don't like this change, either. You need to open a new tab page first and it should show "Top Sites." To do this, open Edge > go to the menu in the top-right > select Extensions > turn off each extension > close Edge > Restart. Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. What i did is point my mouse on anything on the list in drop down, and press delete. Share this article: https://mzl.la/3vWKZoB. These fine people helped write this article: Grow and share your expertise with others. You can narrow your results down to bookmarks only by making your search string mozilla* or *mozilla. This article describes the steps to pin, unpin, etc. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. 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. When you start typing into the address bar, Firefox displays a drop-down list of suggested sites. Can I customize the "top sites"? If you keep browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus set to false, you need to press the down arrow key in an empty address bar to open the list. Now it does not change back to the arrow on the address bar. By default, it should be set as the Search box . 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. Currently you can: 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: Customize your New Tab page to hide or display content. * type ^ to initiate a history search, See also:
Click that to get the Menu.
>What's happening when you click inside of the url bar? 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. 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. ~pmt~. "(B) "Show History" list previously accessed with the wide "v"-like button"
Instead, there is a list of locations (minus the actual www.com addresses beneath each one) in bold font and some of the locations are repeated on the drop-down menu but take me to a different site. Other than 2 less entries, the 8 Top Sites are the same as the 10 "classic frequently visited URLs list".
Thanks for the response though. When you hover over it, it says "Menu." Like someone above posted, why on earth are they taking away convenient functions that people are used to and love? [[Customize the New Tab page]]
Before today when you opened Firefox and your home page loaded, at the RH end of the URL bar was a small inverted triangle. So now what used to be a simple single click is now a minimum of a click and a keystroke. You now have to repeat this process for every frequently used site that is in the menu box list. The highlighted URL will be deleted. Editing and removing web sites visited in toolbar drop window. And the unmodified ones now do show the drop down. Translation for: 'nom d'un projet / projet' in French->English dictionary. In Thunderbird itself all those email autocomplete entries come from address books in Thunderbird. When I type in an address, the drop-down menu no longer contains the same list of addresses as always. Hi toniwalker10, the preference mentioned earlier in this thread is for Firefox 75-76. Many websites offer search engines that you can add to Firefox. Then you won't have to be typing so much in the address bar. I have gone to "Options' and checked all the boxes and still I get only an abbreviated list of sites that I visit or have visited and this does not change with time.
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. To learn more, see Change your default search settings in Firefox. It was easy, convenient, made sense, and only needed the mouse. But the list is too short & does not display all 10 items like it used to. Is that a workable option for you? Why do you have to make things difficult for users.? Smart keywords do not make keyword suggestions. Load about:addons in Firefox's address bar afterwards. New features are nice, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Is removal of this button an already-made design choice for Firefox that will stay with us for the next versions? I am using 16.02 version. (C) Consider an add-on as a workaround
Access your top sites from the address bar, Change your default search settings in Firefox, Address bar autocomplete suggestions in Firefox, if you want to see only search suggestions. 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. There you can see an option to add a Top Site. 3. That helped some; I was able to pin a specific site to the home page. Thanks. By default, Firefox 77 drops down a list automatically when the cursor enters the address bar. Now even if the arrow is missing, the dropdown works fine for me. In the left pane of the window, navigate by expanding tree views through like so: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer, then click TypedPaths. (Edit: Updated first screenshot). when I click the url bar, the dropdown with mostly visited sites appears, which is really what I've been looking for. AWKjrh32r1 Now it's gone. In the top right corner, type the name of the website you wish to forget in the, To clear all items in the address bar history, click. This feature is currently only available in English. Modified July 9, 2020 at 7:43:09 AM PDT by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer casale Question owner On the left, click Privacy and Services. If Firefox is "moving away" from this kind of thing, they need to reverse course, in my opinion. Search over 14 million words and phrases in more than 510 language pairs. 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.