Comments on: Tweak Firefox 3 location bar autocomplete menu

By: vipul

vipul — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:26:56 +0000

hey nice thing,
but i have one question?
where to find this auto complete list means where the Mozilla store all the information?

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:03:18 +0000

The ‘one click’ solution is Seth Spitzer’s add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

By: Vasu

Vasu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:18:16 +0000

yackediyack :
The fonts are too small on the machine I guess. My objective was to remove the URLs. The reason is, for many website the information that is shown is good enough. Also, if you scroll down the location bar items, you can see the URL in the address bar. I like it that way!.

By: Veky

Veky — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:19:37 +0000

I am wondering exactly the same thing as matt. I want Firefox 2 style autocomplete.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:05:00 +0000

thats great and all, but what about those of us who want the new firefox to behave just as the old firefox.. that is, i dont want to see anything except URLS appear in the URL auto complete. i dont give a damn about the font size, i just dont want to see the website titles at all.. how would i go about this??

By: Richter

Richter — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:12:38 +0000

My Firefox 3 address bar is broken. It doesn’t auto-complete URL’s the way FF2 did, or for that matter, the way IE, Safari and Opera do. Instead, it seems my bookmarks, search results and other stray pages I’ve visited are leaking into the address bar. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to upgrade to Netscape Navigator Gold?

By: drale

drale — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:03:07 +0000

Thank you. I thought it was hard to skim through with all the same color text. I pay more attention to URLs than page titles whenever remembering where I was and wanting to get back.

By: yackediyack

yackediyack — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:19 +0000

@Matthew:
LOL :P. Yeah I believe that is why you don’t see that much difference… I only have a single 17″ monitor. Your is almost double as big :O.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:58:43 +0000

I don’t see what the big deal is, but maybe thats because I have dual 32″ displays

By: yackediyack

yackediyack — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:26:16 +0000

@asdfg:
Aha! you’re right.
The two places it says [selected="true"], changing the ” to ‘ resolves “selected text go totally blue” problem
This fix makes my previous posted code unnecessary…

@Vasu:
You’re code make it look like this for me: http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8521/vasucodegy9.png
= Links is no longer showed… I don’t like that appearance. But of course: We all have some different tastes
Peace

By: Vasu

Vasu — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:19:32 +0000

Even better is to set the url-text size to 0. Also tweaked some other stuff. Use the following chrome. (Tested on ubuntu)

.ac-comment {
font-family: monospace !important;
font-size: 95%! important;
color: #444444 ! important;
}

.ac-comment[selected=”true”] { color: #FFFFFF !important; }

.ac-url-text {
font-size: 0% ! important;
color: #000077 ! important;
}

.ac-url-text[selected=”true”] { color: #FFFFFF !important; }

By: asdfg

asdfg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:27:14 +0000

The reason Percy’s code makes selected text go totally blue is because of a small error.
Where it has [selected="true"], it uses closing-style quotation marks on both sides. If you copy and paste that, Firefox doesn’t seem to like it. Best to change it to straight style quotation marks.

Still a very useful tweak though.

By: yackediyack

yackediyack — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:18:20 +0000

Very nice tweak!
Love the new search function in location bar, I really think it is a big improvement. But have to say I also find the default dropdown design to big.
Couldn’t really figure out what part of the code that does it, but for some reason, Percy Cabello (thread author) your code makes the results totally blue, when chosen, so you can’t read them.
The code from Timothy Babych’s userstyle doesn’t…
Here is a image illustrating the matter: http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5169/3differentlookscomparisvq4.png
I experienced a bit and took the (in my opinion) best part from the two codes and made my own. Here is my code:
.ac-comment {
font-size: 100%! important;
color: #333 ! important;
}

.ac-comment[selected="true"] { color: white !important; }

.ac-url-text {
font-size: 100% ! important;
color: #000077 ! important;
}

.ac-url-text[selected="true"] { color: #FFFFFF !important; }

Here is another image with a comparison of the 4 different color codes of the two scripts: http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/7249/the4colorscomparisonuy6.png

By: www.rdoering.net

www.rdoering.net — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:19:15 +0000

Firefox 3RC1 im “personal Test”…

Nach ich irgendwo aufgeschnappt habe, das der aktuellen Firefox 3RC1 wohl zum Release wird, wenn nicht doch noch Fehler auftreten, habe ich mir mal meine persönliche Meinung mit einer Installation in meinem Homeverzeichnis gebildet….

By: thebadness.org » Hardy? Hardly

thebadness.org » Hardy? Hardly — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:39:08 +0000

[...] used some changes to the userChrome.css file to modify the way the location bar looks. Just a few basic adjustments [...]

By: Timothy Babych

Timothy Babych — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:54:09 +0000

Thanks! I have compiled the thing into userstyle:
http://userstyles.org/styles/6162

By: Andrzej

Andrzej — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:15:12 +0000

Much much better know.

Autocomplete was really getting on my nerve.
Thanks to you I get to keep this feature.
Was about to get rid of it.

By: Qwertyu

Qwertyu — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:02:03 +0000

“While the default colors and sizes is…”

“Is” should be “are.”

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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:39:55 +0000

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By: 关于Firefox3 - Someus.cN

关于Firefox3 - Someus.cN — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:14:44 +0000

[...] 我终于抛弃Firefox2了，投送到Firefox3的怀抱了，Firefox3刚发布了一个Beta4的，但还要继续发布一个Beta5版本，主要是为了解决一些尚未解决的bug，估计对正式版的发布也有一些影响。从现在的Firefox3Beta4来看，改进还是不少，最大的就是Javascript引擎的改进，用Gmail是明显感觉快了不少，主题也和操作系统关联了，XP、Vista、Mac、Linux一个不少。但地址栏自动完成却有点主次不分，网页标题太大，很多用户都很难看清网址，幸好找到方法修改它，打开userChrome.css，加入以下内容： .ac-comment { font-size: 100%! important; color: #444444 ! important; } .ac-comment[selected=”true”] { color: #FFFFFF !important; } .ac-url-text { font-size: 100% ! important; color: #000077 ! important; } .ac-url-text[selected=”true”] { color: #FFFFFF !important; } [...]

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:35:53 +0000

@David, thanks for the tip! I’ve updated the post.

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:23:32 +0000

Ok, I found it for myself. Here’s an addition to the tip:

If you want to change the colour for selected items, use the following rules:

.ac-comment[selected="true"] { color: #fff !important; }

.ac-url-text[selected="true"] { color: #fff !important; }

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:14:10 +0000

Anyone know how to set the colour when the items are hovered?

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:07:11 +0000

Great tip. I’m going to keep the titles as they are but make the URLs a medium grey.

By: Pelle

Pelle — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:35:35 +0000

Wow - your styling of it makes it look much more beautiful! Hopefully Mozilla will change it into something like this before the final release.