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The new ‘awesomebar’ in Firefox 3 beta 5 has been driving me nuts, to the point that I couldn’t use the browser, until I found this option:
browser.urlbar.autoFill
Now it’s truly awesome, and behaves like Safari and I.E. would (guesses the rest of the address as you type, and so you don’t have to hit the down arrow to choose a site).
Here’s how to turn this feature on:
type about:config in the address bar and hit enter
Click on the ‘ok, I’ll be careful’ button
Search for browser.urlbar.autoFill in the filter list
Double click on false to change the boolean to true

That’s it, now when you start typing in the address bar it autocompletes, you don’t even need to restart the browser.
This works in Firefox 2 through Firefox 3 beta 5, but works great with Firefox b5′s new awesomebar.
One tip – I didn’t think this was working at first because I would type di and hit enter and it would go to di.com (di.fm) instead of going to digg.com like I wanted.
The solution was to type in digg.com and hit enter to have autocomplete memorize it, (maybe you have to re-register the autocompletes) and then d-i-enter would go to digg.com.
Brilliant – I was typing ‘f’ to go to facebook, but the first autocomplete value was http://en-us.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official because of the keyword ‘firefox’. I just typed ‘facebook.com’ and enter a couple times, and now facebook.com is the default site for ‘f’. Awesome!

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