As you type a web site address into Firefox’s location bar, by default a dropdown with suggestions based on your history expands, and you can use the down arrow key to select one. For more aggressive URL auto-completion, head on into Firefox’sabout:config
area and set thebrowser.urlbar.autoFill
value to true. The result takes away the arrow key step for the first hit. Check out the How-To Geek’s full explanation if you’re new toabout:config
, and see also our top Firefox 2 config tweaks.
I’ve done this already but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to tell people these people do!! 😉 I like how they did it.