So that looks promising, but I don't want to go messing around blind with too many settings.Ĭan someone please tell me how to disable all automatic searches and pop up search suggestions in FF (2.0.0.17, running on XP Home)? I went to the FF forum, but the search disable entries I found there were all for pre-release beta-versions of 3.0. Using 'browser' as the filter, there are several more instances of google that show up under these:

removing entries for defaultenginename, order.1, order.2), but nothing worked. It affects multiple browsers with multiple keyboards, so I assume the issue must be with the specific type of text field used for their address bars.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. I went through all config settings under the 'search' filter and tweaked them where I thought it might help (e.g. There is a hidden setting to revert the behavior back to the old 'separate bars' arrangement. I don't need a list of suggestions after every letter I add to my search string or URL. Here's what I am looking for: when I type something into a box, I want NOTHING to pop up with any suggestions. I also tried to disable the search suggestions (for when you actually are in a search window) by changing to false, but even after restarting FF the search suggestions still pop up. Firefox Themes is an extension that changes the browsers appearance and provides thousands of themes to give Firefox a look the user wants. And for all the crap that goes with IE, at least you had the option to disable the search from the address bar. I have always hated searches being run automatically without my express consent.

I hate having my typos redirected to search pages.

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