(Since I don't do this daily, I guess it's not really "tip of the day" but why quibble over the details ;-)
If you're like me and you don't use bookmarks very often, instead relying on bookmark keywords and address autocompletion, this tip is for you. When you get bogus items in your Firefox address autocomplete list, you can easily delete them by just arrowing down to the bogus one and hitting shift+delete on your keyboard. Cleaning up your address autocomplete for common sites every once in a while will make your browsing experience more pleasant.
Posted by asa at July 27, 2004 12:51 PMWow. Best tip ever. Not only have I been checking your site daily since I switched to Firefox two weeks ago, but now I'll check it twice daily :)
If you have any more of these wonderful tips, keep them coming!
Posted by: Jacob W. Klein on July 27, 2004 01:20 PMI hope this kind of feature apply to Mozilla Email Compose.
I had very embarrassing experience because I picked the wrong Dave.
You mean the "Delete Individual Form Auto-Complete Entry" function mentioned in the keyboard shortcuts list? ;)
http://texturizer.net/firefox/keyboard.html
Posted by: David Tenser on July 27, 2004 03:12 PMI picked that up a long time ago without even thinking about it. I just assumed it would work and it did. Talk about intuitive design! :o)
Posted by: MadMoose on July 27, 2004 05:15 PMAn issue I have with autocompletion is that it hides the protocol handler.
I have a site that only works with https and if I use auto-completion firefox tries the http version which fails...
Will have to look for the bug.
Grrrrrrr
Otherwise thanks for the tip.
Posted by: Jerome on July 27, 2004 05:39 PMIs there anyway to stop Firefox putting my Google searches which I type into the address bar as http://(keyword)? I have modified my Fx so that it performs a Google.com.au search instead of the default 'I'm feeling lucky', and every search I do is saved in the autocomplete list.
Posted by: Phill Bryant on July 27, 2004 07:01 PMPhil, don't quote me on this, but I believe that your method actually uses a fallback system of Firefox for handling incomplete URLs. Try putting Google Australia in your search bar, you can install this functionality by going to the Mycroft project page and click the appropriate link. :-)
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html
Posted by: Markus Lindström on July 28, 2004 01:52 AMAsa, maybe in future you should note, that this pretty tip works only in Firefox and not in Suite. =( It really looks like Mozilla Foundations sell Suite users down the river...
Posted by: Adam Hauner on July 28, 2004 05:06 AMJacob:
Why check it twice a day when there is RSS?
Either get sage (http://sage.mozdev.org/) or read the feedhouse (http://feedhouse.mozillazine.org).
Posted by: grayrest on July 28, 2004 10:11 AMDoesn't seem to work on the mac version of firefox though...
Posted by: Andy Fyfe on July 28, 2004 10:15 AMCool. Now why can't this be applied to the Location Bar history? If so, I would think (although I don't really know) it would be an easy "port" thereby fixing bug 87098.
Posted by: Jason Bassford on July 29, 2004 09:29 AMJason Bassford, it does work for the Address field autocomplete and history pop-up :) Use Firefox -- The Browser Reloaded ;-)
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on July 29, 2004 10:11 AMWhy not just Delete, why Shift+Delete?
Posted by: Aaron Leventhal on July 30, 2004 07:55 AM