That was actually a search.

For what you were doing you would need to change your keyword.URL in your "about:config" settings. See Location Bar search (external - search engine) -- this was the value in Firefox 2 which seems like what you had carried over through Firefox 3 but got overridden with Firefox 4 and later, you can restore your setting.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

type in the address bar about:config

then press the button i'l be careful i promise

then type in the bar browser.fixup.alternate.enabled

then double-click on it to set its value to true(probably you have false in there).

exit firefox and restart.

remember you must put www. before ebay, www.ebay and firefox complete the url, www.ebay.com and direct there.

thank you

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The above was already set to true. I do not need to put ".com", but I still need to put "www." where I did not in my previous version. Is there a way to avoid entering "www." as well?

I am not very good with computers, how would I change the settings to avoid entering "www./.com" in the location bar using the link you provided?

You can try to disable keyword search by setting the keyword.enabled pref to false.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.enabled

To which search page are you redirected?
Some ISP automatically redirect to a search page if a DNS look up fails and in that case you need to opt-out of that service..

cor-el You are AWESOME, It worked!!! Thanks.

You're welcome