if you want example.com, type exam in the awesomebar and example.bar will show up in suggestions, if, of course, you visited it before or if it's bookmarked.
if you want example.com/xyz, type example xyz or example x or just xyz.
if you want example.com/xyz, type example xyz or example x or just xyz.
I just tried it. I have example.com in my history, and typed "exam". Example.com is the second thing firefox suggests. Before it, is a duckduckgo image search result page for the query "botanist", with an image titled "Young Botanist Examines The Plants In A Greenhouse Stock Photo". Firefox is picking up the "exam" in "Examines" and puts that result before example.com.
I don't really care which is first, I just want one or the other to be consistently first.
Disable: Show search suggestions in address bar results
That should be it.
Below, go to Change settings for other address bar suggestions it will navigate to: Address Bar / When using the address bar, suggest Disable or enable as you see fit. I think the Search engines under the "Address Bar" is about the custom search engines one can define (i have a custom search for youtube, for example: y <search term>).
A better guide here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
When searching your history from the address bar, firefox sometimes puts entries matched by domain name first, and sometimes puts entries matched by page contents first.