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I was able to simply type the middle of an address, without the www. and .com and it would take me directly do the site. What happened to this feature?

juliesmadness
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Now when I type something into the address bar without the full address, it just takes me to a google search. Is there a way to get it to work again?

Now when I type something into the address bar without the full address, it just takes me to a google search. Is there a way to get it to work again?

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Search behavior is different from the location bar in Firefox 4+. It was changed to always search rather than using a Google algorithm. It should be more predictable now but you can change it back by changing keyword.URL in about:config to http://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1

or use this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/luckybar/

or this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/browse-by-name/

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the-edmeister
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Chosen Solution

Search behavior is different from the location bar in Firefox 4+. It was changed to always search rather than using a Google algorithm. It should be more predictable now but you can change it back by changing keyword.URL in about:config to http://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1

or use this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/luckybar/

or this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/browse-by-name/

juliesmadness
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Thank you! That was fast!

the-edmeister
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You're welcome.

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