Before today when you opened Firefox and your home page loaded, at the RH end of the URL bar was a small inverted triangle. You can customize the Top Sites section of the Firefox Home / new tab page by pinning your own pages, dismissing those you don't want, etc. This thread was archived. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/. Firefox 48 users who want visit or search options removed in the address bar have the following options instead: Option 1: Use Classic Theme Restorer Install Classic Theme Restorer from Mozilla's AMO website. For example if (say) ''''' hotmail.com ''''' was showing it would take one highlight and Backspace operation but if (say) '''''.9news.com.au/national/four-children-killed-in-townsville-road-crash-one-injured-queensland-news/59bb839f-e0e9-437b-8c2b-6bdcf03dbe04 ''''' was in the URL bar it would take a number of highlight/Backspace operations to get to an empty URL bar. Was it change just for the sake of change? I expanded the Top Sites to display 2 rows or 16 sites & there is no way some of those listed are more popular than other websites I frequently visit. ''
jscher2000 [[#answer-1321824|said]]
'' Meanwhile, if you click in the address bar and type a space (press the spacebar), Firefox will show the classic frequently visited URLs list. @jscher2000 Had to use an extension to get that functionality. You should be able to click and get the entire thing highlighted and with no need to backspace. It'll confirm, click on I'll be careful, I promise! What happened to the old list? The arrow changes to a downward-pointing arrow, and a drop-down list of the subfolders will be displayed. You can inspect and modify the Top Sites setting via "Options/Preferences -> Home". Put me down for hating this change to the way the address bar functions now. You need to open a new tab page first and it should show "Top Sites." Clear search I do know it is showing sites I've viewed recently instead of sites I visit around once or twice a week. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. 3) Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard. Top sites appear in the same order as the shortcut tiles in your New Tab page (you can customize them on your New Tab page). Press. (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered, (3) Double-click the browser.urlbar.update1 preference to switch the value from true to false. This setting also disables the user-defined setting, "Show search and site suggestions as I type". Modified June 5, 2020 at 3:40:32 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer. >What's happening when you click inside of the url bar? Get support from our contributors or staff members. However toggling '''openViewOnFocus''' worked indeed and the arrow is back. That arrow was probably the main reason why I was still using Firefox over other browsers. ), This isn't as good what we had before they took away the arrow, but at least it gives us some of the sites we want to quickly reach. However toggling openViewOnFocus worked indeed and the arrow is back. Do step 4 or 5 below for what you would like to do. Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. Finally -- a new solution that actually works! Hi Mike109, setting aside any pinned tiles or tiles you've added, the Top Sites should be based on "frecency", a combination of frequency and recency. Click the button accepting the risk. Page titles and web addresses from your browsing history. Why do you have to make things difficult for users.? I want it back. Now type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter box. You can modify or disable the display of autocomplete entries in the Location Bar, as explained below. Hi cspsound, just for background, I'm a support volunteer and didn't make these user interface decisions. I don't know why the sites are different that what I saw previously in the drop-down menu. When you click in the address bar, clicking on a search engine in the drop-down list (like Google or Amazon) will autofill the address bar with a search engine shortcut (example: @amazon) so you can perform a search without having to load the search page.1) Click the arrow that's located on the far right side of the Firefox address bar. The web addresses just DON'T come off: To Enable "AutoComplete" in Firefox NOTE: This is the default setting. When I type in an address, the drop-down menu no longer contains the same list of addresses as always. Linux (Arch); FF 66.0.2 More info in this article: [[Hide or display content in New Tab]]. "hi, firefox 75 introduced a change where a dropdown with lists of your top site will now appear when you just click somewhere into the address bar (so the need for a dedicated button for this is no longer present)." '''Firefox 75-76 ONLY''' Since the upgrade today this triangle is missing and the only way to get to the drop down menu is to highlight what ever URL is in the URL bar and use the "Backspace" key to clear the URL bar, then place the mouse in the now empty URL bar and the menu box appears and then you have to mouse click the one you want. To get that back, change '''browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus''' back to true in about:config. Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. My browser experience is completely broke without it. Chrome didn't have (and still doesn't have) anything like it. It is designed for Windows 10 to be faster, safer, and compatible. Plus most people don't like change once they get used to something and like it. You could take a look at its features and limitations and see whether it could work for you: I tried your addon but it wasn't what I was looking for either. Select "Manage Search Engines" from the drop-down list. It seems like the current list is sites I've frequented more recently, while the previous list was sites which I visited regularly for months or years. Open Firefox. (3) Double-click the '''browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus''' preference to switch the value from true to false It just expands slightly, no history or suggestions is being displayed at this point. Thanks. Scroll through the autocomplete entries and find the page in the list (type in another letter if you don't see it listed). Write a ? If you do that, Firefox will switch to dropping down the "Show History" list. If you have Top Sites enabled on the Firefox Home / new tab page, the list usually will be the first eight items in the Top Sites section. To get that back, change browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus back to true in about:config. Hi Mike109, the list that displays with '''browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus''' = true are your first 8 Top Sites from the new tab page. The list I used to get when I clicked the arrow is a different list than what shows when I click directly in the address bar. When you start typing in the address bar, Firefox suggests relevant popular searches as provided by search engines like Google, Bing, etc. (3) Double-click the browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus preference to switch the value from true to false. I do know it is showing sites I've viewed recently instead of sites I visit around once or twice a week. The address bar changed to dropping down the first 8 Top Sites from the new tab page, and removed the frequently visited sites list button. It was easy, convenient, made sense, and only needed the mouse. As you type into the address bar, Firefox may offer relevant site suggestions, such as websites from your browsing history, bookmarks and open tabs, to help you quickly and easily navigate the web. Now I updated to FF 77.This article describes how to clear single items or all items from the address bar history. To turn off the address bar autocomplete feature or restrict it to exclude certain results: Change preferences for search engine suggestions: Click this link to open to the Search settings panel, where you can change your settings for search engine suggestions, including suggestions from your Search history. I thank you for that information and I will give it a try, but it is definitely not as convenient as the way it used to be up until today. Hit the ^-key instead and you get a similar listing; this one uses a slightly different algorithm to compute the list of sites. It's a different sequence and takes an extra action, so it's double the effort to get the same behavior. Earlier in the thread I noted that if you turn off the Top Sites section of the new tab page, then the automatic list switches to the frequent URLs list. You should be able to click and get the entire thing highlighted and with no need to backspace. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. If you can think of any way to bring back the triangle feature or remove the latest upgrade so that all of the features that were in the previous versions can be restored (and simply so that users like me can easily understand the process!!!) (Edit: Updated first screenshot). If you keep browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus set to true, when you click in an empty address bar, the default list will open automatically. I tried changing the options and unchecking "top sites," but that only brings up sites I've already visited today. This will also prevent your search from autocompleting with bookmarks, smart keywords and search shortcuts. If you want to disable Top Sites, that setting is on the Options/Preferences page. I wrote an extension for a button similar to the old one, in case anyone wants to test it: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/, (The reason I didn't put the button inside the address bar with the "Page Actions" icons is that section is not displayed when the bar is empty and your cursor is inside it, for example, on a new tab.). Search over 14 million words and phrases in more than 510 language pairs. Content available under a Creative Commons license. ''How to show the classic list of frequently visited URLs. :). If you don't find this, first click the Menu at the top left. If youve installed Firefox for the first time, it suggests top-ranked sites by default. Neither works. Now with the latest update the drop down has gone. it would be greatly appreciated. If you use this function a lot, which I do, those extra keystrokes add up very quickly and it's just very annoying because it used to function perfectly before. Firefox devs absolutely must return the option to at least toggle this behaviour on or off. The latest beta debuts the "Megabar" for testing. The Firefox address bar displays the URL (web address) for the page that you are visiting. I don't understand why they changed it. When you are using a search shortcut, the keyword suggestions come from the chosen search engine. Click that to get the Menu. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/ Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. How do I disable the "Visit website" addition to the address bar? Or you can type ^ which triggers a history search. This thread was archived. The highlighted URL will be deleted. Bookmark and tag frequently used pages. All of the recently workarounds from the past month no longer work for me in FireFox 77.01 and now I'm stuck with a rather new looking but dud URLbar. jscher2000, But why arent they exact? We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. In order for you to get Google back in your drop-down menu, you will need to follow the suggestion someone else posted to my question. Choose the option "data validation," as shown in the image below. Click the "Delete" button. Firefox devs absolutely must return the option to at least toggle this behaviour on or off. To customize the font that appears in a drop-down list box, use the Font and Font Size boxes on the Formatting toolbar. For the drop-down, there's currently no way to increase beyond eight Top Sites. You can inspect and modify the Top Sites setting via "Options/Preferences -> Home". You can type a space into the address bar to show the classic list or, when it is is empty, you can press the down arrow key to show it. @jscher2000 Please ask a new question if you need help. (If a site you want to pin is already listed on the page, just drag it to the top row and it will be automatically pinned. Step 1 Click the "Safety" menu on the far-right side of your browser's tab bar. Alternatively, use the shortcut key "Alt+A+V+V" to access the "data validation" dialog box. So I have my Yahoo Mail page, Facebook, Google Maps, and a couple of other pages listed at the top of my browser in the toolbar; all I have to do to go to the page is click a button. (If you click on the address bar without typing into it, a drop-down list of your most visited or pinned sites will be displayed instead.). It's a different sequence and takes an extra action, so it's double the effort to get the same behavior. Run Edge without any extensions and see if you have the same problem. In the Data Validation dialog window, select List from the Allow drop-down menu. Mozilla released Firefox 75.0 Stable on Tuesday and the main change in the release was the revamping of the browser's address bar. * press the space bar (type a space) So this is an improvement how??? The latest beta debuts the "Megabar" for testing. If you disabled Top Sites, the list usually will be the classic recent/frequent list. How can I go back to the way it was before the Firefox update screwed everything up? Hi Karlstens, the enlargement needs to be fixed using userChrome.css, which is a topic of many other threads. Seemingly minor changes like this are annoying. That helped some; I was able to pin a specific site to the home page. Now you can delete unwanted websites from list. Your top sites are those you visit the most (a combination of your most recently and frequently visited sites), as well as the sites youve pinned. The Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge allows showing suggested search results when typing in the Microsoft Edge address bar (suggestions list). In the address bar of Firefox type about:config, and click/tap on the I'll be careful, I promise button. Type or paste enough text for Firefox to show the item in the drop-down. The OLD advice for this problem, listed below, is NOT working. You can access your top sites from the drop-down list that appears when you click the address bar. Thanks for the response though. Press the down arrow key to highlight the item. On the 2 previously modified profiles the arrow is gone along with the drop down list. To make this change, go to the Options page, click Home in the left column, then uncheck the Top Sites box: Based on my limited experience with my own Firefox, the classic list is weighted a little differently so the order among the top 5-6 is different, and also one site is missing from the "frecent" list.ajpeavler [[#answer-1312991|said]]
'' :). On occasion, you may see a tip from Firefox on how you can save time while searching. I am looking for the same thing as the original poster and then changing it in the URLB section. In the left pane of the window, navigate by expanding tree views through like so: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer, then click TypedPaths. Get support from our contributors or staff members. Once you add the new Top Site, it is pinned to the page. Suggestions from your browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs will be listed, underneath what you've typed. There are a number of ways to adjust that, including turning off search engine suggestions completely on the Options/Preferences page, Search panel.I did now change the options for my "top sites" to be 2 rows instead of 1 row; that added more sites to my new tab page, but they still don't show up when I click the address bar. 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