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Revision as of 07:47, 3 December 2005
The Location Bar, also known as the Address Bar or the URL Bar, is a text field in the browser window where URLs and keyword searches are entered. In Firefox, it is directly to the left of the Search Bar and “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. Disabling autocomplete in Firefox requires editing userChrome.css. In Mozilla Suite and SeaMonkey, it can be disabled by setting browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled to false via about:config.
Searching
In 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.
Finally, 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.
Username/password syntax
When entering HTTP and FTP URLs, you can specify the HTTP Basic Auth or FTP username and password thusly:
http://username:password@example.com/ ftp://username:password@example.com/
