Firefox: How do keywords typed in URL field redirect to specific sites
EX: Type "webmasters" to go to the International Webmasters Association.
HyperGeek
2:49 pm on Jul 29, 2004 (gmt 0)
What service is Mozilla Firefox using to pull these default pages? It's king of annoying - I'd like it to just drop me into Google or a search instead of serving up a page that I'm mostl likely to click out of anyway.
Robino
2:54 pm on Jul 29, 2004 (gmt 0)
Download the GoogleBar extension and you wont have to worry about it.
Receptional Andy
3:00 pm on Jul 29, 2004 (gmt 0)
The redirection is doing a Google 'I'm feeling lucky' search.
You can alter this behaviour by going into about:config and changing the value of keyword.URL to [google.com...] for a default Google search.
HyperGeek
3:34 pm on Jul 30, 2004 (gmt 0)
Cool tip, I noticed other things I can foil around with as well. >:)