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The Location Bar, also known as the Address Bar, URL Bar or Awesome Bar, is a text field in the browser window where URLs (&ldquo;Web addresses&rdquo; such as http://www.mozilla.org), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address IP addresses], and [[Using keyword searches|keyword searches,]] are entered. In Firefox, it is at the top of the browser window to the left of the &ldquo;Go&rdquo; button.

==Autocomplete==
Addresses typed into the Location Bar are remembered by the browser, and they appear in a drop-down list below the bar as you type. In Firefox you can [[Disabling autocomplete (Firefox)|disable the display of autocomplete entries]], and you can [[Deleting autocomplete entries|fully delete autocomplete entries]] manually. In the Mozilla Suite, the autocomplete mechanism can be disabled completely by setting the preference [[browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled]] to false using [[about:config]].

==Searching==
Text information entered in the Location Bar that doesn&rsquo;t look like a URL is processed as described in [[Location Bar search]]. In Firefox, this means that you&rsquo;re directed to Google&rsquo;s &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Feeling Lucky&rdquo; 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 [[Using keyword searches|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 Authentication|FTP username and password]] as follows:
 <nowiki>http://username:password@example.com/</nowiki>
 <nowiki>ftp://username:password@example.com/</nowiki>