Revert to previous behaviour in the address bar
Just upgraded to Firefox 31.2 and I find the new behaviour of the address bar conflicts with the way I work. I often cut and paste URLs, I type directly into the address bar, I use a current tab to go to about.config and none of these work. I found one reference to changing gfx.xrender.enabled to false but this hasn't helped. Any clues on how to revert to the old behaviour?
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it's about:config with a colon...
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hello msjs, i'm not entirely sure what you're referring to by the new behaviour in the address bar. maybe this is also something caused bay one of your addons - which you could check by launching firefox into safe mode once for testing purposes...
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Thanks Philip But I have NOT changed any addons for the last three versions so it is unlikely to be that. I will take a look though.
The behaviour I was talking about was how parts of the url disappeared when I clicked into the address bar, the same when I would try to copy a URL. When I would type about.config into a used tab, I end up getting "Firefox can't find the server at www.about.config" even though I did not type the "www". If I typed it into a new tab, about.config still works.
By changing "gfx.xrender.enabled" and "browser.urlbar.trimURLs" to false in about.config I appear to have solved the first two parts of the problem.
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it's about:config with a colon...
Derrrrr.... Facepalm! I knew that, I used it earlier. Too many hrs out of bed.
All three problems solved and the 4th about to be.