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In the old Firefox 3, when I typed "facebook" into the adressbar it automaticly redirected me to facebook.com.

Or when I typed "wiki football" it got me to the wikipedia entry for football.

I miss this feature in Firefox 4. Now it just always get's me to the google page with the search results. How can I reactivate the old way ?

Cheers

In the old Firefox 3, when I typed "facebook" into the adressbar it automaticly redirected me to facebook.com. Or when I typed "wiki football" it got me to the wikipedia entry for football. I miss this feature in Firefox 4. Now it just always get's me to the google page with the search results. How can I reactivate the old way ? Cheers

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Found a solution my self :-)

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search#Location_Bar_search_.28internal_-_Auto_Complete.29

Type about:config in the adress bar and filter for keyword.url and change the value to

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

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There is a change in Firefox 4 in how Location bar search works.

  • In Firefox 3.6.x, Location bar search uses Google "Browse by name" search. With the browse by name search, it performs a Google search and
    • if there is a clear match it will take you to the site
    • otherwise it shows the Google search result page
  • Firefox 4's default is
    • to perform a Google search and present the Google search results page if you type something which is not recognized as a URL
    • you must type a complete URL, such as www.youtube.com , to go directly to the site

To get the Firefox 3.6.x behavior in Firefox 4. you need to change a hidden preference.

  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press the Enter key
  2. If you see a warning, zccept it (promise to be careful)
  3. A list of preferences will open
  4. Filter = keyword.URL
  5. Double-click on that preference in the lower pane
  6. A small window will appear; copy the line below and paste into the box in that small window (or type it into the box in that window exactly as shown below):

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

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You need to update the following plugin(s):

  • Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_22 for Mozilla browsers
  1. Check your plugin versions on either of the following links':
  2. Update the Java plugin to the latest version.

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