Memo to myself:
To turn on inline autocomplete in the Firefox web browser…
- Enter about:config in the URL field
- Right-click on the page and create a new Boolean value
- Enter browser.urlbar.autoFill as the preference name (note, case-sensitive: ‘F’, not ‘f’)
- Set the value to true
There. Maybe next time I won’t have to Google for it again.
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thx for the tip dougal
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Thanks Dougal, something that I was missing in my firefox adventures 😉
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Thank you for this boolean instruction. It was annoying that the great Firefox didn’t have this feature. I can’t believe I didn’t do a Google search until now to try and add it.
Oh man… Just like someone else said: inline autocomplete was the ONLY thing I was missing from IE. Missing so much that I actually was going to stick with IE because of the time, typing, and clicking it saved me. Not anymore. Thanks dude!
How do I delete items from my auto complete lists? Lists are getting too long.
Are we talking about autocomplete in web fields e.g. search boxes, address fields, etc.? I also would like to delete. In IE you can arrow down and just hit delete.
I solved my own question–it’s SHIFT + DELETE. Now I can delete all my porn searches. This site is helpful. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/s2s/latest/jaws1/src/hotkeys.html
Jimmy, you’re a genius! Thanks for the url. Shift + Delete solved my biggest problem with FireFox.
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Geez, that’s the reason why I stick with Mozilla, because a lot of simple but yet very usefull functions are not enabled in Firefox by default. I also think it’s ridiculous that you can not enable them besides using the cryptic about:config interface. Even in Mozilla a user can easily enable or disable autocomplete in the preferences.
It important to note here that you social security number will be stored if you use it for logging in somewhere. Unless you internet banking-provider or whatever has included an “autocomplete = “off” -tag in the htm-code.
In other words, to prevent identity theft, autocomplete should be used with care.
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Where are all the Firefox autofills saved? I know how to delete autofills from IE5 in one go, but want to know how before enabling FF.
And how do you turn this off ?
It would be logic if you set browser.urlbar.autoFill to false, but that isn’t working here ?!
Any tips ?
how do you turn that damn thing off!
how do you turn that damn thing off!
kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_autocomplete_(Firefox)
Whow that’s just perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>i figured this out myself. if you want to get rid of form fill, for things such as google searches (not for the url bar), then you need to:
type into your url bar: about:config
then, type in the filter bar: browser.formfill.enable
now, double click it so the the boolean value is false
i did this with Firefox, i’m not sure if the same will work for other browsers
This “fix” only does autofill during the same browser session. Once I close Firefox, and reopen it later, nothing autofills. Anyone having this problem?
It works fine for me across browser sessions. Maybe you have some other setting that’s causing a side-effect? Maybe you have Firefox set to not save your browsing history?
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Is there anyway to enable the dropdown history list while preventing it from opening automatically? That is, you could type in your URL without seeing the history, but if you needed it, you could click on the dropdown history button and see the possible completions?
I`ve tried to set Autocomplete to TRUE, but nothing changes? Enter about:config, then add browser.urlbar.autoFill, then set to True. Any idea why this won`t work? Thanks.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this. Yours is the first site that was right on. Thanks!
Is it possible to have it go to the root domain first, then the subdomains? Having it autocomplete something obscure doesn’t save time…am I doing something wrong or is that coming?
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thanks
thanks man, lol, i used this for the reverse, the autofill was pissing me off but i couldnt figure out how to turn it off.
Any of you knows where can I get a trick that I can use for this in firefox 2?
Thanks much. I just added this to FireFox 2 and it works fine.
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How do you turn OFF the autofill in FireFox? I find it very annoying that everytime I type a number it gives me 25 choices to select from when I all I want is that one number.
Can somebody PLEASE tell me how to turn off this incredibly annoying feature. I have set everything I can find in about:config to false including the items mentioned here. I’m using Firefox 2. If I can’t get rid of this feature I am giving up on Firefox. It is *that* annoying to me. A feature that gets in my way is more annoying than three I want but don’t have because I *hate* software doing what I don’t want it to do.
To anyone else who googled in here looking for ways to turn off the autofill in the google toolbar in Firefox 2.x. It turns out to be very simple. Right click on the tool bar (or context thingy on a Mac) and untick show suggestions. Not that you’d ever know that without trying it, of course.
Just a quick note to say thanks for the info on the inline autocomplete, I have been meaning to sort that out for ages and thanks to you it is now working fine.
Thanks
Thanks, very much appreciated. I was thinking of going back to IE since it was so annoying.
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Why the inline autocomplete do not work for http://www.google.com?????
Really!! Try it! Do not works!!
(sorry for the bad english, i’m brazilian)
Awesome, no idea why this isn’t the default setting.
I can’t get this to work with google.com either. It’s worked in previous versions of Firefox–could Google have changed something to prevent the autocomplete, perhaps in order to boost gmail (since that’s what I get if I just hit g)?
MaryP
Thanks. I can finally start using Firefox as my main browser as this was the one thing that really was really missing for me.
This works for Mac as well – Inline Autocomlete for Firefox Mac Version… Thanks you so much for this!
For those who changed urlbar.autoFill to true but still don’t see anything: make sure that urlbar.maxRichResults is not set to 0. (The default is 12, which you get by right-clicking on the setting and choosing ‘reset’).
Thanks a lot, this helped me quite a bit during my searches.
nice, thanks a lot for that. veryy useful
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