Domain guessing in Firefox 4 doesn't work
One reason I jumped back to Firefox 3.X from 4 beta was the fact domain guessing did not work. Back to 3.X and it started working again.
The settings in 4's about:config are there and are set to "true". I just doesn't.
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The change between Firefox 3.6.* and Firefox 4 is how location bar search works. In Firefox 3.6 it uses Google "Browse by name" search. With the browse by name search, it performs a Google search and if there is a clear match it will take you to the site, otherwise it shows the Google search result. With Firefox 4 it just performs a Google search if you type something which is not recognised as a URL.
To get the Firefox 3.6 behaviour on Firefox 4 you need to change a hidden preference.
- Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
- Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
- Locate the preference keyword.URL, double-click on it and change its value to the link shown below
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
Thanks for the response. The link does not take me anywhere but to either igoogle in IE or Google's main page in Firefox. But, I figured out where you were going and it worked. Thanks for your help.
so how do you do it again ? i did what TonyE said but didn't work too
Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences Locate the preference keyword.URL, double-click on it and change its value to:
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
If you prefer, you can also do this by installing the Browse by Name extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browse-by-name
awesome, thanks for clearing that up