Join the AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the Firefox leadership team to celebrate Firefox 20th anniversary and discuss Firefox’s future on Mozilla Connect. Mark your calendar on Thursday, November 14, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC!

This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Wo archive tread sia. Meɖekuku bia biabia yeye ne ehia kpeɖeŋu.

Single word search - Firefox tries first DNS looup even though the word does not look like a valid URL (browser.fixup... is disabled).

  • 2 ŋuɖoɖowo
  • 26 masɔmasɔ sia le wosi
  • 157 views
  • Nuɖoɖo mlɔetɔ forethinker

karel_
karel_
more options

When I enter a correct domain name in the location bar, it is resolved without any problems ("domain.com"). When I enter multiple words, not constituting a valid domain ("some domain"), it is automatically searched in my preferred search engine. If I enter a single word ("domain"), which is _not_ a valid domain, Firefox still attempts to first resolve it (which takes about 15 seconds).

Is there a way to disable or fix this behavior?

browser.fixup.alternate.enabled;false

browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups;false

keyword.URL;http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

When I enter a correct domain name in the location bar, it is resolved without any problems ("domain.com"). When I enter multiple words, not constituting a valid domain ("some domain"), it is automatically searched in my preferred search engine. If I enter a single word ("domain"), which is _not_ a valid domain, Firefox still attempts to first resolve it (which takes about 15 seconds). Is there a way to disable or fix this behavior? browser.fixup.alternate.enabled;false browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups;false keyword.URL;http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

All Replies (2)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

It maybe better to use a (one letter) keyword bookmark if you want to do searches via the location bar. It is always possible that you want to access a local site without a TLD appended and in such cases you need to do a DNS look up.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

forethinker
forethinker
more options

The best bet for this problem is using Ominbar add-on, as the single keyword redirection to DNS is not a bug, but implementation design.