# Firefox question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/420288>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/420288 "2007-09-24T12:18:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/420288/1 "2007-09-24T12:18:40Z")

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I switched to Firefox a few months back and prefer it to Explorer in every way but one: the location bar. Is there a way to have the locations one selects come to the top of the bar a la Explorer in Firefox? Right now, all of the sites I always use are at the bottom because I accessed them first and I have to scroll though a bunch of sites that I may have used just once to get to them.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/420288/2 "2007-09-24T12:43:29Z")

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Are you talking about the sort order of bookmarks?

If so, you can change it like this:

type **about:config** in the address bar  
In the filter box at the top, type **sort**  
One of the config items displayed will be **browser.bookmarks.sort.direction**  
Double click it and you will be prompted for a new value (default is \*\*descending \*\*- you can type in **ascending** )

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/420288/3 "2007-09-24T12:45:18Z")

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I asked this a month or so ago. It is one of the few things about Firefox that I don’t like.

I didn’t find a good answer yet. I’ll be watching this thread too.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/420288/4 "2007-09-24T13:51:51Z")

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Here’s my best advice, and I really think you should follow it:

Don’t use the ‘recent URLs in the address bar’ method of revisiting sites. Learn to keep bookmarks. It gives you a _lot_ more control, and is in fact a faster and more reliable method.

If you choose not to use bookmarks, then you will just have to deal with the Firefox method of storing its ‘recent URLs’.