Firefox 36 and later no longer have the old browser.urlbar.default.behavior preference with its option to match only URLs, only titles, or both URLs and titles. In my research, I have not found a substitute setting.

The "manual" way is inconvenient and imperfect: you need to put @ in the URL bar (separated by a space from your text) to exclude titles and match only in URLs. However, I noticed this change the matching from "anywhere in a string" to "starting at a word boundary" so that's unhelpful.

Thanks for your reply jscher. The lack of the configuration parameter is really unfortunate. Matching word boundaries is what I need anyway so this is not a problem but typing @ every time before using the url bar is really annoying. I fail to see how FF could miss such essential features as url bar behaviour settings.

This occurred when simplifying the settings in the user interface, and since this was never in the UI, it seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. You can submit further comments on the following sites:

• Feedback site: https://input.mozilla.org/feedback

• Bug tracking system: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (submit a new request for enhancement)

See also "Changing results on the fly":

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs

Submitted https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216120

See also:

• Bug 1146323 - Re-introduce preference and UI for "Only match locations, not website titles" in location bar suggestions.
• Bug 1071461 - Awesomebar improvements

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cor-el said

See also:

• Bug 1146323 - Re-introduce preference and UI for "Only match locations, not website titles" in location bar suggestions.
• Bug 1071461 - Awesomebar improvements

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The first bug you quoted is closed and I can't see any references to the issue in the second one.