How to make Firefox address bar suggest a website and not a URL within the site?

Question

Honestly, I loved Google Chrome, but it crashed on me several times which I couldn't handle anymore.

Now, Firefox's omnibar/address bar is killing me. Say I type "you" (because I plan on getting on YouTube), Firefox decides to suggest me the URL of what is probably the last YouTube video I watched.

I would like it to simply suggest "youtube.com" rather than "www.youtube.com/293%383103dhf23i" is this possible?? HELP!

Answer 1

The way that the Awesomebar works is by suggesting your previously visited websites and bookmarks.



So if you typed in You.... it will suggest one of your previously visited sites (which would incidentally be youtube.com/293%383103dhf23i ) instead of Youtube.



There is a very simple work around -- just make a bookmark for Youtube. You can also give it a keyword -- make it short like YT.



And then change how the Location Bar works by going to Tools => Options -> Privacy -> When using Location Bar, suggest Only Bookmarks



And you can also use the keyword to your advantage -- just type in "YT" in the location bar to quickly get to Youtube.

Answer 2

Mozilla calls it the "awesome bar", BTW.

I don't even like the awesome bar and have it set to 0 entries. If you want to do this, "First, go to your Firefox settings by putting 'about:config' [minus the quotation marks] into the location bar. Click past the warning message, and scroll down to browser.urlbar.maxRichResults [or copy and paste "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" (again, without the quotation marks) into the filter]. This sets how many recommendations the Awesome Bar will display -- it's 12 by default, but... chang[ing] it to 0" will turn off the "Awesome" Bar).

I find keywords a lot easier and better to use.

Another hint that I've found helpful: many of the websites that I have a keyword for that have search on them, I simply make another keyword for the search and simply add an "s" to whatever I called the other keyword. For example, if I set the keyword for youtube.com as "you", I would make another keyword for the search (right-click the search field and choose "Add a Keyword for this Search") as "yous".

Answer 3

yep, just bookmark the youtube homepage by pressing Ctrl+D, and name it as 'you' or just 'y'.