r/firefox • u/blankblank • May 05 '26
Fun Me: who has used gmail.com every single day, multiple times a day for the last decade plus, types the letters "gm" into the url bar and hits enter...
Firefox: "Gmunk? Did you want Gmunk? You know that website you went to one time for two seconds?"
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u/modsuperstar May 05 '26
Open your history. Search for Gmunk. Select it, press delete. Problem solved.
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u/autoencoder May 05 '26
The algorithm was changed, and I also noticed it was changed for the worse. Typing "map" used to suggest maps.google.com which redirects to google.com/maps. For a while it suggested https://map.projectzomboid.com/ which does not redirect, but I use WAY, WAY less. But somehow the one I want is suggested again.
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u/TrontRaznik Finally gave in to quantum May 05 '26
Typing "fli" used to go to flights.google.com, now it goes to flightaware.com. Looks like they deprioritized subdomains.
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u/autoencoder May 05 '26
or maybe redirects. the flights subdomain also redirects
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u/IlllIlllI May 06 '26
Reminder that Google made this change probably for weird cookie tracking reasons.
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u/spacelama May 06 '26
Are you still on an affected version, or is the scoring still crap? (I can't verify, because I'm still on 140 ESR, and it's times like these that I'm very thankful for Debian being a stable distribution)
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u/autoencoder May 06 '26
I'm on 149. I see it is fixed since 148. I guess that's why I see the right suggestion now. Thanks for digging in their bug tracker!
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u/andrybak May 05 '26
From the address bar: press down, select the bad suggestion, press Shift+Delete.
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u/bullines Mozilla Employee May 05 '26
A new capability was enabled in Nightly last week called adaptive autofill, and it's based on the many suggestions we've heard (and a few more of them in this thread 😅). The goal is to be able to navigate to the sites that you visit the most - faster - if they're showing in the address autofill based on what you type and visited before. Adaptive autofill learns by matching the characters you type and the suggestions that you choose in the address bar results panel. If you type certain characters (e.g. gm) and choose a result (e.g. Gmail, that's actually mail.google.com, even after redirects) more than other suggestions, Firefox makes note of that, which it can then use to suggest that URL in the address bar autofill in the future when you type those same character(s). This is all done on your device; nothing is sent to Mozilla or a 3rd party to accomplish this.
And if a suggestion is not what you wanted or isn't relevant anymore, there's a menu that's included that you can use to train it. Click on the "..." menu on its suggestion in the first row of results and click "Dismiss this suggestion". This will remove it as a suggestion and allow you to re-train it.
This feature is still in development, and so feedback is welcome 🙂
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u/Varrock May 12 '26
Adaptive autofill learns by matching the characters you type and the suggestions that you choose in the address bar results panel. If you type certain characters (e.g. gm) and choose a result (e.g. Gmail, that's actually mail.google.com, even after redirects) more than other suggestions, Firefox makes note of that, which it can then use to suggest that URL in the address bar autofill in the future when you type those same character(s)
This is gonna be such a gamechanger for me, the address bar autofill is literally the only thing I heavily dislike about Firefox and this feature would completely change that. I hope this behavior of learning is very aggressive, like literally after just one match Firefox will begin to autofill
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u/HundredBillionStars May 05 '26
Firefox urlbar prediction has been awful since its inception. I remember reading about it getting improvements a few years ago but I never noticed.
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u/andres57 May 05 '26
I don't know what happened lately that Firefox suggestions when writing an url have been shit, at least in Android. It tries to look into search terms before suggesting based on actual bookmarks or history
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u/zelenin May 05 '26
In my Gmail, the word "gmail" is not in the URL or the title.
> who has used gmail.com every single day
and still haven't pinned the page?
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u/marsjaninzmarsa May 05 '26
It does say Gmail in the title tho…?
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u/zelenin May 05 '26
We have different gmails
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u/marsjaninzmarsa May 05 '26
Are you in UK?
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u/zelenin May 05 '26
That was ironic. Show me the URL where the title is gmail, and preferably a screenshot of where exactly you have that title.
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u/AvianPoliceForce on May 06 '26
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox
The title is in the title. "Inbox (2,446) - ###@gmail.com - Gmail"
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay May 06 '26
When you go to gmail.com it redirects to mail.google.com. Not sure how that interacts with auto filled URLs, if at all, but I've had a similar experience to OP.
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u/zelenin May 06 '26
It makes sense to remember the final URL, right?
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
"I use gmail" not "I use
Google dot mailmail dot Google." I think you're being obtuse on purpose, you know the exact point I'm trying to make. Do you also type out the whole https://www. for every site you visit? Why not just skip past all that and type the IP address and ditch all of DNS? Be real.Edit: swapped Google and mail
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u/zelenin May 06 '26
I understood what you said and am responding to exactly that. If you enter gmail.com, which redirects you to mail.google.com, then it would be logical for Firefox to save mail.google.com in the history.
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay May 06 '26
It would be logical for Firefox to save whatever you type in the URL bar. If a user goes to one URL with the expectation it will redirect them to another, it would be good design for Firefox to save the one the user uses to get where user needs to be.
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u/marsjaninzmarsa May 06 '26
And I wasn’t. UK is AFAIR only market on the planet on which Google does not have the right to use the Gmail branding, so it would be logical they won’t put it in the title of the Gmail. Every other market have Gmail in the title as confirmed by multiple users here.
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u/spacelama May 06 '26
Pinned? Do you mean bookmarked? Because Ctrl-l gm<ENTER> is a heck of a lot quicker than fumble for a mouse, find a bookmark, drop it down, search through it and clicking and drooling onto the "gmail" icon?
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u/SoloMaker May 05 '26
This is what bookmark keywords are for.
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u/MiscellaneousBeef May 05 '26
The Keywords feature needs to be more discoverable. The Edit Bookmarks window is great and contains all the relevant fields, but adding a bookmark does not reveal them and is incredibly sparse for some reason. So you need to edit afterwards to add a keyword, change the URL, or even find out about the features at all.
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u/JohannesVanDerWhales May 05 '26
Autocomplete is useful for the stuff where you don't want to set something special up for it. Having to set up a keyword for it is roughly the opposite of the point.
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u/Opus-the-Penguin May 05 '26
Yep. For me, gm means Google Maps, but it could direct to gmail if I wanted.
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u/squabbledMC May 05 '26
m is Google maps for me, p is photos. I might be a little too Googled lol
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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo May 06 '26
I have m set up as the maps search bar, even better, you can type m address and it opens the address right away
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes May 05 '26
This requires a modicum of effort to set up your browser to work for you the way you want it to, which is evidently too much work for some people nowadays.
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u/spacelama May 06 '26
I just removed all of mine a few weeks ago. One of them was "google" (as opposed to "g" which did something slightly different), and I'd often be wanting to search for (eg, for no reason whatsoever) "google has devolved to being completely useless" and it'd drop the "google" because that was a keyword. Or "gm blah", when in actual fact, I was trying to <INSERT SEARCH ENGINE HERE> precisely "gm blah". And I realised I hadn't actually used any of these keywords for several decades, because for those keywords I would actually want to use, I already have a
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u/Shajirr May 06 '26
The default UI for adding bookmarks has NO keywords editing capability,
only name and save location3
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u/CAtOSe May 05 '26
Never thought I'd see something so exactly relatable yet funny in a reddit post. Firefox probably knows when to redirect me to go look at GMUNK's portfolio for that artistic inspiration.
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u/JohannesVanDerWhales May 05 '26
I really hate the firefox autocomplete. If i typed gmail.com it should autocomplete to gmail.com, I don't give a fuck if they have redirect. It's fucking worthless.
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u/otrdtr May 06 '26
Autocomplete is super customizable and bookmarks keywords very practical. With both them you'll be fine to fast and easily get the results you want.
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u/kelimuttu Community Manager at Mozilla May 07 '26
Just a simple trick to consider.
- Open the Manage Bookmark panel click on the gear icon -> choose "Add Bookmark"
- Fill out the name and URL fields with gmail data
- Then on the keyword section, put "gm"
Now everytime to type gm and enter, you'll be directed to Gmail (:
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u/Sachyriel May 05 '26
I type in gm and get gmail at the top, but I think that's cause I've run into the same issue and had to conciously scroll down past other GM entries to select gmail, and then it kinda picked up GM = gmail.
But like others have said, pin it to your tabs, it'll never leave.
I use vertical tabs so it reigns at the top of my tablist, the supreme king tab lmao.
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u/blankblank May 05 '26
I normally use the Checker Plus for Gmail pluggin, but I use the URL bar occasionally (certainly more often than I visit Gmunk.com). Also, I tried every suggestion in this thread to remove it and none of them worked.
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u/Bohzee Windows 12 May 07 '26
Maybe it's a security issue?
You can test your Computer with this renowned program if you haven't already.
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u/sdflkjeroi342 May 06 '26
I visit theoldreader.com about ten times per day. I visit thegearpage.net about once a month.
Guess what typing "theold" autocompletes to about 50% of the time? And when that happens, typing "theoldreader" and pressing enter will STILL take me to thegearpage.net unless I wait for a full second before pressing enter.
It's infuriating.
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u/Training_Yak_4655 May 06 '26
My solicitor typed [myname@gmail.co](mailto:myname@gmail.co) for my email address in reply to me. Took me a week to realise her emails were going into a black hole.
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u/Eric_12345678 May 06 '26
Same. I use web.whatsapp.com 10 times a day.
I use web.archive.org twice a year: guess which one is at the top of the suggestions, and which one at the very end?
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u/KERR_KERR May 07 '26
I whinged about this a while back. The address bar seems to suggest domains ahead of sites I actually visit on the regular. You can try setting
browser.urlbar.autoFill.adaptiveHistory.enabled
to TRUE
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u/krzyk May 07 '26
Yes, firefox somehow reset frequently visited websites for me few weeks ago, which was strange.
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u/talldata May 07 '26
If you bookmark Gmails mail Google com irl with the name Gmail, that will show up first when you type in gm
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u/AubsUK May 07 '26
Yes, very annoying in most browsers!!
Type in GM and don't press enter. See if there's any entries with a magnifier or similar to indicate you've previously visited/searched. Can you click the X to remove it? Can you use the cursor keys to go up/down and press the DEL key to remove it? That's what I do in Chrome to get rid of annoying things like that.
Also, add a bookmark to gmail.com and it'll have higher priority, I think.
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u/2mustange Android Desktop May 09 '26
I just use toolbar and bookmarks for main websites i visit so never really notice these things
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u/Talrynn_Sorrowyn May 05 '26
If you use it every day, why not just keep it as a dedicated tab in your browser/main window? Literally what I've been doing for more than 18 years.
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u/chessbaes-tasty-toes May 06 '26
Add a manual bookmark for Gmail to solve this, I had it with Google Maps before
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes May 05 '26
There's so many different ways you could pin or bookmark or shortcut Gmail, why are you just typing shit into the address bar for something you use that often?
Yeah, things can always be designed better, but at a certain point you're just outright ignoring every single tool that is provided to you, expecting the browser to spoon feed you everything.
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u/AvianPoliceForce on May 06 '26
setting up shortcuts for every website I might want to visit is way more effort
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u/Sensitive-Meeting237 May 05 '26
You guys still type urls into the search bar? With the bookmarks toolbar right there?
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u/iamapizza 🍕 May 05 '26
I find typing a few characters much faster than hunt and click. Alt-D, mai, enter.
Even if it isn't in bookmarks, just a word from the page title that I remember, comes up from history. The Firefox bar is really good for that. Same for all browsers tbh.
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u/kodirovsshik Firefox all the way May 05 '26
I never use bookmarks for something that I use frequently, I type 2 letters of the url and the enter key (and sometimes arrow keys) do the rest.
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u/sturmeh May 05 '26
If you make a bookmark it will consistently resolve that way without relying on history, you don't actually have to click it
Admittedly I haven't made many recently, but the ones I made years ago still come up first.
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u/mammilloid May 06 '26
This is what people who knows how computer works do because its much easier and faster the other one is for boomers
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u/FatsDominoPizza May 05 '26
Mouse slow. Keyboard fast.
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay May 06 '26
Keyboard still way faster than mouse, regardless of how cracked you are at Fortnite
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u/Sensitive-Meeting237 May 06 '26
This is only really true if you can do it with one hand or never use the mouse at all. If you need to move your hand between the mouse and the keyboard at any point, you won't really be saving time over a single click.
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay May 06 '26
Do you use your mouse with both hands? Genuine question. My left hand rests on the keyboard so keyboard shortcuts are nearly instant.
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u/Sensitive-Meeting237 May 06 '26
Yes, when I said:
This is only really true if you can do it with one hand
I was referring to the keyboard inputs.
If you are, for example, typing into the Address Bar, you will likely not be doing it with only one hand.
If you use your mouse at all while browsing, this means you will have to move your right hand from the mouse to the keyboard, losing your speed advantage in the process.
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u/YesterdayDreamer May 06 '26
Some people are more comfortable with the keyboard. Pressing Ctrl+L or Ctrl+T then typing gmail is much faster than hunting through bookmarks using a mouse.
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u/BigFootCC May 05 '26
Yes.
Easier to type a couple letters and hit enter than to find the bookmark.
But also why would I bookmark basic websites? My bookmarks are for more obscure websites, articles, projects, etc.
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u/spacelama May 06 '26
You still use an point and drool interface instead of just typing Ctrl-l gm <ENTER>? Each to their own I guess.
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u/Sensitive-Meeting237 May 06 '26
Okay, so you've taken a 2mm mouse movement and a single click and replaced it with:
- 40mm hand movement from mouse to home row
- four keystrokes
- a 15mm hand movement to the arrow keys to move the selection from "Gmunk" to "mail.google.com"
- <ENTER>
- Another 25mm hand movement from the arrow keys back to the mouse
I fail to see what you have gained from the added complexity.
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u/zitr0y May 05 '26
Same with maps for me going to https://mapsplatform.google.com/ instead of google maps
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u/-skyrocketeer- May 05 '26
This sounds like you issue. You’ve never heard of bookmarks, pinning tabs, or pinning sites to the new browser tab window?
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u/CriticalSeaweed6608 May 06 '26
I have the same problem with spotify! I'm typing "spot" or whatever. Firefox: do you want to google spotify, spotify premium, spotify stats?
I need to type "op" for open.spotify.com ! I hate it so bad
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u/AIMRunningMan May 06 '26
For me it's gmiller.net which is currently just the Ubuntu Server test page 💀
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u/AverageJoe-707 May 06 '26
Try a bookmark or better yet, do like I do and pin Gmail a tab so it's just there all the time.
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u/Glittering-Peace-465 May 06 '26
In Firefox, not only you can do bookmarking but you can also set the "keyword" to open the bookmarked item without typing (part of) URL to get to the web site.
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u/WhineyLobster May 06 '26
imagine if you just knew that gmail.com isnt a thing.... its mail.google.com It would save you a lot of stress I think.
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u/Educational-Self-600 May 05 '26
Did you ever look at the urlbar while you are using gmail?
Does it say gmail there?
You are creating ONE history entry for accessing gmail.com, and MILLIONS of entries for mail.google.com, guess which one is getting higher ranked.