I may be switching from FF to IE

[Jon Danniken]

Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:54:53 -0700]:

Jon Danniken wrote on [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0700]:

I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does
inline auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.


Firefox is doing it, isn't it?

Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using
FF as my default browser.

FF does it, and has for a while

How do you turn it on? I have 3.0.8, no inline auto-complete.

Upgrade to a supported version, 3.6.3 does it by default

Nope, just downloaded and installed it, and imported my favorites from IE.
I still do not have inline auto-complete of favorites/bookmarks in the
address bar.

Thanks for prompting me to upgrade my FF installation, though.

Jon

 

[Jon Danniken]

By auto-complete, did you mean website address auto-complete, or
bookmark auto-complete?

I mean favorites/bookmark inline auto-complete from the address bar, known
as "inline autocomplete". For instance, as I have with IE6.x, I have a
favorite called, "g oogle", which has an affiliated URL of
www.google.com.

When I type "g" into the address field, it finishes it up as "g oogle",
and hitting "RETURN" takes me to www.google.com.

Likewise, I have a favorite called "gg oogle image search", with an
associated URL of http://www.google.com/imghp . When I type "gg " into
the address bar, it completes it as "gg oogle image search", and hitting
"RETURN" takes me to http://www.google.com/imghp.

Additionally, I have a favorite called "ggg oogle groups search", with an
associated URL of http://groups.google.com/advanced_search . When I type
"ggg " into the address bar, it completes it as "ggg oogle groups
search", and hitting RETURN takes me to
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search.

That's what inline auto-complete is. Unfortunately, Microsoft removed it
completely (not just disabled it) beginning with IE7, and AFAIK there are no
other browsers which implement it.\\

It is the only reason that I am still using IE6.

Jon

 

[Jon Danniken]

AH... Firefox can import the history from IE!!! As I said in another
post: no history, no auto-complete!

Different feature, I am looking for "inline auto-complete" which uses
entries from the favorites/bookmarks.

In reality, in IE6, they all work together, ie, both history entities and
favorites/bookmarks show up during an inline autocomplete return.

Jon

 

[Justin]

Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:55:49 -0700]:

Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:54:53 -0700]:

Justin wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote on [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0700]:

I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does
inline auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.


Firefox is doing it, isn't it?

Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using
FF as my default browser.

FF does it, and has for a while

How do you turn it on? I have 3.0.8, no inline auto-complete.

Upgrade to a supported version, 3.6.3 does it by default

Nope, just downloaded and installed it, and imported my favorites from IE.
I still do not have inline auto-complete of favorites/bookmarks in the
address bar.

Works for me. Not sure why it doesn't for you.

I have bookmarks I have not been to in several years, and they autocomplete fine
by typing their name

 

[Peter]

Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:54:53 -0700]:

Justin wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote on [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0700]:

I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does
inline auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.


Firefox is doing it, isn't it?

Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using
FF as my default browser.

FF does it, and has for a while

How do you turn it on? I have 3.0.8, no inline auto-complete.

Upgrade to a supported version, 3.6.3 does it by default

Nope, just downloaded and installed it, and imported my favorites from IE.
I still do not have inline auto-complete of favorites/bookmarks in the
address bar.

Thanks for prompting me to upgrade my FF installation, though.

Jon

I have a computer with IE6 on it and have just turned on inline
autocomplete, but this doesn't seem to work for those URLs already in
favorites only when I add a new URL to favorites.

Perhaps it's the same for FF. If you add a new entry in favorites
perhaps it will show up.

 

[Jon Danniken]

Have you tried this?

In the address bar, type 'about:config' (without quote marks) and
send.
In the filter box, type 'autoc' (again without quotes).

Is there an entry called 'browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled'? If so,
what is the entry under 'value' (far right)?

If it's 'false', right-click on it, then select 'Toggle' from the
menu. This should change it to 'true'.

Then click on your 'Home' button, then try typing a url in the address
bar to see if it auto-completes.

I looked at that value, but it was already set to "True".

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled - Status=default Type=boolean
Value=true

I went to the "home" button and started typing in an entry from my imported
favorites, but I still do not get any inline autocomplete action.

Thanks though.

Jon

 

[Jon Danniken]

I have a computer with IE6 on it and have just turned on inline
autocomplete, but this doesn't seem to work for those URLs already in
favorites only when I add a new URL to favorites.

Perhaps it's the same for FF. If you add a new entry in favorites
perhaps it will show up.

Thanks Peter, tried that, but it still doesn't work.

Jon

 

[Jon Danniken]

Go to Tools > Options > Privacy, and check what you've got set under
'Location Bar' at the bottom. Mine is set for "When using the location
bar suggest: History and Bookmarks". Try playing about with the
settings there to see if any of them do what you're looking for.

Hi Nigel, went to Tools - Options - Privacy, and mine was also set to
"History and Bookmarks" as well. I tried to the other three options
(HIstory, Bookmarks, Nothing), but none of them gave me an inline
auto-complete.

Thanks though.

Jon

 

[Jon Danniken]

Set FF back to it defaults.

http://www.browserland.com/how-to/restore-firefox-default-settings-without-uninstalling-it/

Do what Nigel said. If need be delete all bookmarks/favorites and
them back.Worst case try it on another PC. You will se FF does do
this.

Tried that, didn't work. Then I uninstalled FF, dumped all of the folders
(app data, program files), and rebooted the computer.

Started it back up and reinstalled FF. Didn't import anything, but I went
to google.com and saved it as a bookmark (named as "g oogle")

Closed FF, opened it back up again, typed "g " in the address bar, and
still no inline autocomplete. I get the drop-down list I have always
gotten, but no inline autocomplete.

Thanks though.

Jon

 

[Paul]

Tried that, didn't work. Then I uninstalled FF, dumped all of the folders
(app data, program files), and rebooted the computer.

Started it back up and reinstalled FF. Didn't import anything, but I went
to google.com and saved it as a bookmark (named as "g oogle")

Closed FF, opened it back up again, typed "g " in the address bar, and
still no inline autocomplete. I get the drop-down list I have always
gotten, but no inline autocomplete.

Thanks though.

Jon

I use something called "Old Location Bar", a plugin which changes Awesome Bar behavior
back to the old behavior. Maybe you could try that.

"Old Location Bar 2.1.2 by Kakkoii"
"Works with Firefox: 3.0 - 3.7a5pre"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637/

I don't like using addons for that purpose, because they're a maintenance
headache. Every time the Firefox version changes, the addons are checked
for "compatibility", and it is up to the addon author to update them.
I was using a previous addon ("OldBar") of that type, and the author discontinued
support, so then I had to find a new different one, to do the same thing.
And that is what the item above is.

That is the only addon I use - because the Firefox developers had too much ego
involved, to have a thing in about:config to make the old behavior an option.

Paul

 

[Jon Danniken]

I use something called "Old Location Bar", a plugin which changes
Awesome Bar behavior back to the old behavior. Maybe you could try
that.
"Old Location Bar 2.1.2 by Kakkoii"
"Works with Firefox: 3.0 - 3.7a5pre"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637/

I don't like using addons for that purpose, because they're a
maintenance headache. Every time the Firefox version changes, the addons
are
checked for "compatibility", and it is up to the addon author to update
them.
I was using a previous addon ("OldBar") of that type, and the author
discontinued support, so then I had to find a new different one, to
do the same thing. And that is what the item above is.

That looked promising, so I installed it. I went through all of the
available options, restarting FF each time, but could still not get inline
autocomplete to work from the address (er, "location") bar in Firefox.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Jon

 

[Charlie]

Tried that, didn't work. Then I uninstalled FF, dumped all of the
folders (app data, program files), and rebooted the computer.

Started it back up and reinstalled FF. Didn't import anything,
but I went to google.com and saved it as a bookmark (named as "g
oogle")

Closed FF, opened it back up again, typed "g " in the address
bar, and still no inline autocomplete. I get the drop-down list I
have always gotten, but no inline autocomplete.

I have Firefox 3.5.9 and like you mine does "not" have inline auto
complete. At least not with WindowsXP sp2. Maybe the people who
have it are running a different OS.

Charlie

 

[Jon Danniken]

I have Firefox 3.5.9 and like you mine does "not" have inline auto
complete. At least not with WindowsXP sp2. Maybe the people who
have it are running a different OS.

Aye, running WinXP Pro, Service Pack 3 here. Glad I'm not the only one (as
meanspirited as that sounds).

Thanks.

Jon

 

[Peter]

I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does inline
auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.

Jon

Actually Jon, IE8 does do this.

 

[Jon Danniken]

Actually Jon, IE8 does do this.

Hmmm, everything I have read, from user postings to MSDN blogs tells me
otherwise.

You are currently using IAC - from the address bar - with IE8?

Jon

 

[Peter]

Hmmm, everything I have read, from user postings to MSDN blogs tells me
otherwise.

You are currently using IAC - from the address bar - with IE8?

Jon

It certainly does. From the address bar. Hadn't really paid it much
attention till now. Normally I'm just typing in a web url, which it
lists the first 6 at the top. However, below the urls it then has a
history heading, under which are the top 5 page titles, and under that
is the Favorites heading, under which are the top 4 matches for the
names under which they were saved to your Favorites.

If I start to type in a name that I know is in my Favorites (and there's
no match for basic urls or history), it only lists the matches for
Favorites.

 

[Peter]

Hmmm, everything I have read, from user postings to MSDN blogs tells me
otherwise.

You are currently using IAC - from the address bar - with IE8?

Jon

Actually, I sent my follow-up just a little too quickly. You need to
type the first 2 characters before it shows any matches in Favorites.

 

[Jon Danniken]

It certainly does. From the address bar. Hadn't really paid it much
attention till now. Normally I'm just typing in a web url, which it
lists the first 6 at the top. However, below the urls it then has a
history heading, under which are the top 5 page titles, and under that
is the Favorites heading, under which are the top 4 matches for the
names under which they were saved to your Favorites.

If I start to type in a name that I know is in my Favorites (and
there's no match for basic urls or history), it only lists the
matches for Favorites.

Yes, I have seen matches available in a drop-down box, but does it
autocomplete the entry on the same line as the one you are typing in? In
other words, can you type a few letters and just hit ENTER without having to
choose from the list you are given?

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Robin Bignall]

Yes, I have seen matches available in a drop-down box, but does it
autocomplete the entry on the same line as the one you are typing in? In
other words, can you type a few letters and just hit ENTER without having to
choose from the list you are given?

IE8 doesn't do inline autocomplete, as far as I can tell, but it does
show history and then favorites in a drop-down box that is convenient
enough for me. I vaguely remember inline working on some previous
version of IE but it's a while ago.

 

[Peter]

Yes, I have seen matches available in a drop-down box, but does it
autocomplete the entry on the same line as the one you are typing in? In
other words, can you type a few letters and just hit ENTER without having to
choose from the list you are given?

Once there is only one item left in the list you can hold down shift and
press enter. Otherwise, if there is more than one choice from the
letters that you type how is IE supposed to know which you want?

And if you don't want the History to show, you can disable it from:

tools>>internet options>>content>>auto complete settings

Though it seems you cannot disable auto complete for any websites you
have typed the url for and visited.