Category:Location Bar

Up to Firefox

The Location Bar, also known as the Address Bar or the URL Bar, is a text field in the browser window where URLs (“Web addresses” such as http://www.mozilla.org) and keyword searches are entered. In Firefox, it is at the top of the browser window to the left of the “Go” button.

Autocomplete

Addresses typed into the Location Bar are remembered and appear in a drop-down list below the bar as you type. You can delete these autocomplete entries one-by-one or all at once in Firefox. It is also possible to fully Disable autocomplete in Firefox. In the Mozilla Suite it can be disabled by setting browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled to false using about:config.

Searching

Text information entered in the Location Bar that doesn’t look like a URL is processed as an “Internet Keyword”. In Firefox, this means that you’re directed to Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. (More thorough searches can be performed using the Search Bar.)

In the Mozilla Suite, an option to search for your entered text appears at the bottom of the autocomplete dropdown as you type in the Location Bar.

You also have the option of creating keyword searches to use custom search engines when typing in the Location Bar.

Username/password syntax

When entering HTTP and FTP URLs, you can specify the HTTP Basic Auth or FTP username and password as follows:

http://username:password@example.com/
ftp://username:password@example.com/