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Firefox 4 default address bar behaviour

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20261128 views
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Problem

I have recently migrated to Firefox 4 away from Chrome (Chrome's text highlighting is too annoying as I highlight while I read). One of the things I loved about Chrome was the fact that the address bar would do a google search unless it was a URL. As such, I am in the habit of typing into the addre…

Error Output

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (define) isn't associated with any program.

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Fix for: Firefox 4 default address bar behaviour

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Why it doesn't work This just doesn't work with or other Google keywords witha colon afterwards, because they are probably interpreted as protocol delimiters ( ). All other searches should work normal. If you type "menagerie" into the URL bar, it do…

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