Firefox location bar autocomplete: suggest most visited full URL, not host

Question

However many times you type (or otherwise visit) a particular URL at a host, e.g. www.domain.com/foo/bar Firefox suggests the bare host, www.domain.com first if you type the first few letters, e.g. dom in the location bar.

Is it possible to change this behavior to match Chrome, i.e. suggest the highest ranked full URL, without forcing the URL of the host to be the top choice?

Here are steps to reproduce the behavior I'd like to change: On a fresh install/profile of Firefox 59 with no history:

• type a full URL that is not simply the domain of a site, e.g. stackoverflow.com/questions
• hit enter to load the URL, then close the tab
• type the first few letters of the URL, e.g. stac

The first suggestion is stackoverflow.com (see picture). This takes you to stackoverflow.com, not stackoverflow.com/questions. To get the full URL you actually typed, you have to arrow down to the next suggestion (or further if you have search suggestion enabled).

To be clear, stackoverflow.com/questions is just an example. The problem is that the first suggestion is the highest matching host, not the highest matching full URL for all hosts and URLs.

Answer 1

This also annoyed me a lot - in the end I found a workaround, telling firefox to suggest only items from the bookmarks list.

This way, I bookmark the long addresses I want to appear in the list, and the short ones disappear.

The settings are (version 75.0) in about:preferences#privacy, address bar, uncheck browsing history.