All Things Patrick - Working Hard to be Lazy!

I switched to Firefox several years ago after having used the Mozilla suite. Considering I'm lazy & that's why I like computers... I like having the inline autocomplete turned on so I don't have to type very much of a URL I've previously been to. I keep forgetting that Firefox doesn't yet have this built in as an easy option because I tend to set it & forget.

One of my parents' computers died last weekend, specifically the one in the family room facing the TV. To provide a temporary replacement we brought the computer from upstairs to the family room. I use that computer from time to time when nobody else is around & I feel like getting some work done & that's what I was doing today.

I typed "go" hoping to get "google.com/...." to pop up in the URL bar so I could simply press [enter] & I'd be done. Unfortunately nothing else came up in the URL bar, however there was alot of google URLs in the history list. Ok, now what exactly was that particular option called again? I ended up typing out "google.com" & when it came up I ran a search for "firefox autocomlpete".

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899,000 results for firefox autocomplete. The first page has absolutely nothing in regards to the URL bar (or location bar in javascript). All of it is about autocompleting form values. You know, like please enter your name, email address, blah, blah, blah... None of this is what I'm looking for & this should be easy... shouldn't it? I am lazy after all & this is a great browser feature for being lazy!

Ok, so I add another bit to my google search & "firefox url autocomplete" turns up 403,000 for firefox url autocomplete. None of the links on this page can get me directly there, but there is a link to MozillaZine. Using the "search mozillazine by google" I search for "autocomplete" & t'dah! Third item listed is what I'm looking for - Inline autocomplete - MozillaZine Knowledge Base.

The info I'm listing here is repeated so I don't have to do this blasted searching... yet again. Considering how many times I've done this before, all I needed was the browser.urlbar.autoFill portion :)

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2. Type about:config in the Location Bar
   
3. Right-click on the page and create a new boolean value
   
4. Type browser.urlbar.autoFill
   
5. Set the value to true