[SOLVED] Firefox quantum, disable search in address field

Firefox quantum, disable search in address field

I've been looking everywhere but cannot find a way to disable the search from the Address field in the Firefox Quantom.

No problem adding a search bar, but that doesn't negate the search from the address bar.

I'm currently on 57.0.3.

Solution

You should be able to disable search in the address bar (aka awesomebar) by:

going to about:config;
searching for the browser.urlbar.suggest.searches preference;
setting it to false.

You may notice that there are other browser.urlbar.suggest.* preferences there. You can tweak them to personalize your urlbar suggestion experience.

Update: to disable searching when typing an address (e.g. the URI fails to resolve and it tries to use a search engine) also disable keyword.enabled in the preferences. To prevent the bar from guessing/fixing the typed URI (e.g. typing fred is changed to fred.com) there's another pref, browser.fixup.alternate.enabled. It needs to be set to false to disable URI fixup.