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Firefox Awesome Bar Auto Complete

Published on March 29, 2011 in Tech. 0 Comments

The Awesome Bar of Firefox is too good. However, when compared to Google Chrome’s bar it lacks in one aspect. Search for single keywords.

I always use the location bar to search. Say I wanted to lookup the techcrunch webpage. In Chrome all I have to do is to type techcrunch and hit enter. The Google search shows me the result. In Firefox the same does not happen. Instead, Firefox interprets the single keyword as http://techcrunch/ and then goes on to display an error page. Shucks!  They force me to either break up the keyword into two, for example; as tech crunch, or else open google.com and then search for the single keyword.

That is when I stumbled across a plugin for Firefox which does the instant search thing. Good though it was, I decided to get rid of it after just an hour. The reason? Well, it required me to type g every time if I wanted google search. And habits are not easily changed.

But after removing it, I noticed that my Awesome Bar wasn’t showing me the drop down option bar as it used to earlier. Upon googling, I found that the config can be corrected by going to the about:config and searching for the keyword browser.urlbar.

I noticed one another config option that was turned off by default: browser.urlbar.autoFill. Turn this on, and Firefox will try to auto-complete the search string using the best option from the Awesome Bar, mimicking Chrome’s behavior.

Awesome Bar just got more Awesome!

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Firefox Beta 4 Screwing Up My Display Driver

Published on November 16, 2010 in Miscel. 0 Comments

Ever since I upgraded to the 4b6 of Firefox, my screen occasionally goes blank for a few seconds and then I get a message telling me that my display driver had stopped working. It ultimately led me to revert back to Firefox 3. An updated beta, the 4b7, was released yesterday and I was optimistic that the problem might have been solved. However to my dismay, the issue remains.

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A quick search threw up results of forums where people have complained about the nVidia driver crashing because of Firefox 4. Some suspect it may be because of the Direct2D feature newly implemented in the upcoming Firefox. There were suggestions to update the nVidia graphics driver to solve the problem. But unfortunately, even that does not help.

I think I’ll keep using the beta so long as the crashes are infrequent and Firefox is able to recover from them. Otherwise I will be forced to use the Firefox 3 until a more stable beta has been released.

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Change Firefox Location Bar Search Engine

Published on February 4, 2009 in Tech. 2 Comments
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I have been using firefox for quite a long time now and have got used to its location bar search action. Recently, I did a few plugin installs and uninstalls and somehow managed to mess up the configuration such that the location bar search failed. It would display a neterror message and an error page instead of the google search or the I’m Feeling Lucky result. Upon searching for some time, I came across the fix.

Its pretty simple. All you have to do is this -

  • Type about:config in the location bar and press enter.
  • In the filter text box shown, type keyword. Alternately, you could try searching for the keyword.url option.
  • Modify the value of this key to this – http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

That’s it ! We are done. Once again the search feature from location bar works. Also you could have any other search engine instead of google by appropriately modifying the value of the key.

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