Sunday, January 4, 2009

Firefox 3 smart location bar

Another good feature from Firefox. When you typed some text in the url/address filed (called "location bar" in Firefox), Firefox will try to find the related page for you.

Tips

* When you are looking to go to a website you have previously visited, type a few letters from its web address or page title. Scroll through the autocomplete entries and find the page in the list (type another letter if it is not shown in the list). Press EnterReturn to go to the selected web address. Firefox will give this entry/result combination higher weight in the future.
* Do not clear the Browsing History - usually the richest source of autocomplete entries is from the title/web address combination. Clearing Browsing History will remove these entries from the results.
* Bookmark and tag frequently - used pages. The Location bar will match on the name you give the bookmark and also tags associated with the bookmark. See the Bookmarks article for more information on how to use bookmarks in Firefox. You can improve your autocomplete results by tagging pages with easily-typed tag names.

The Location bar will display results for:

* Web addresses from pages in history that match what you have typed
* Page titles from history that match what you have typed
* Bookmark titles that match what you have typed
* Bookmarks with tag names that match what you've typed

e.g.



http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+Location+Bar

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