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#1 2008-06-16 02:44:01

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
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Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

I like Firefox 3, but I find the new history dropdown menu immensely annoying. Is there a way to get the old Firefox 2 style history menu back?

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#2 2008-06-16 02:47:47

ozar
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From: USA
Registered: 2005-02-18
Posts: 1,686

Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

Go to about:config and enter urlbar into the filter, then double-click the MatchOnlyTyped entry, changing it to true.


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#3 2008-06-16 03:20:46

Gullible Jones
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Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

Thanks... That's not exactly what I had in mind but it's a huge help.

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#4 2008-06-16 03:34:31

ozar
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From: USA
Registered: 2005-02-18
Posts: 1,686

Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

As for the smart bookmarks, or whatever they are called, I just deleted all that from my bookmarks menu with right-clicks and delete.


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#5 2008-06-16 14:09:54

alex_anthony
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From: UK
Registered: 2007-09-25
Posts: 344

Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

there's an extension somewhere that gets the old bar back. It's called oldbar - look on ff addons or in the addon manager.

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#6 2008-06-17 12:30:14

bt
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Registered: 2007-04-11
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Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

I have enabled "Match Only Typed" as suggested by ozar, and also used the right-click and delete, but I still have smart bookmarks that will not disappear. I find them very annoying, and have move to Opera Development which works very well. Still, I would like Firefox3 to work without all that garbage. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

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#7 2008-06-17 16:55:59

bslagowski
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Registered: 2008-02-23
Posts: 102

Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

bt wrote:

I find them very annoying, and have move to Opera Development which works very well.

Why Opera Development? 9.5 stable has been released! About a week or go if I recall correctly. Looks and works very nicely. smile

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#8 2008-06-17 23:21:19

sand_man
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From: Australia
Registered: 2008-06-10
Posts: 2,164

Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

I really like the new history thing smile


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#9 2008-06-20 04:33:18

tigrmesh
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From: Florida, US
Registered: 2007-12-11
Posts: 794

Re: Can I undo Firefox3's "smart" history?

I don't mind the "Smart Location Bar" at home, but I'm more mindful of keeping my interests private when I'm at work.  For example, I have my firefoxes preferences at my workplace set to clear private data every time I close firefox.  So the new location bar behavior bothered me.  I went into about:config and changed browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 (zero).   Now I'm clean at work again.  wink

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