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How to make urlbar autocomplete url only, not the page title

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Siilk
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How do I turn off page title matching in the urlbar? It is really annoying to have all the irrelevant results showing up in the dropdown list when I am typing the url. I found how to make the urlbar only match the start of the first word but I could not find the option to make it match urls only.

I am running FF 39.0

How do I turn off page title matching in the urlbar? It is really annoying to have all the irrelevant results showing up in the dropdown list when I am typing the url. I found how to make the urlbar only match the start of the first word but I could not find the option to make it match urls only. I am running FF 39.0

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox 36 and later no longer have the old browser.urlbar.default.behavior preference with its option to match only URLs, only titles, or both URLs and titles. In my research, I have not found a substitute setting.

The "manual" way is inconvenient and imperfect: you need to put @ in the URL bar (separated by a space from your text) to exclude titles and match only in URLs. However, I noticed this change the matching from "anywhere in a string" to "starting at a word boundary" so that's unhelpful.

Siilk
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Thanks for your reply jscher. The lack of the configuration parameter is really unfortunate. Matching word boundaries is what I need anyway so this is not a problem but typing @ every time before using the url bar is really annoying. I fail to see how FF could miss such essential features as url bar behaviour settings.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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This occurred when simplifying the settings in the user interface, and since this was never in the UI, it seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. You can submit further comments on the following sites:

cor-el
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See also "Changing results on the fly":

Siilk
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Submitted https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216120

cor-el
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See also:

  • Bug 1146323 - Re-introduce preference and UI for "Only match locations, not website titles" in location bar suggestions.
  • Bug 1071461 - Awesomebar improvements

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Siilk
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cor-el said

See also:
  • Bug 1146323 - Re-introduce preference and UI for "Only match locations, not website titles" in location bar suggestions.
  • Bug 1071461 - Awesomebar improvements
Please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

The first bug you quoted is closed and I can't see any references to the issue in the second one.