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How can I stop the address/URL box from displaying search results ?

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I wish to use the URL typing box solely to enter actual URLS (www.wikipedia.com), and have the searches be allocated to the search typing bar that I just enabled

I wish to use the URL typing box solely to enter actual URLS (www.wikipedia.com), and have the searches be allocated to the search typing bar that I just enabled

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Hi AmandineFromEarth, to prevent Firefox from sending address bar input to your default search engine, you need to change a hidden setting or two:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.

To turn off searching for "things that don't look like a URL":

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste keyw and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the keyword.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false

To remove the search icons from the bottom of the drop-down:

(4) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered

(5) Double-click the browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches preference to switch the value from true to false

Does this fix it?

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Zaɓi Mafita

Hi AmandineFromEarth, to prevent Firefox from sending address bar input to your default search engine, you need to change a hidden setting or two:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.

To turn off searching for "things that don't look like a URL":

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste keyw and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the keyword.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false

To remove the search icons from the bottom of the drop-down:

(4) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered

(5) Double-click the browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches preference to switch the value from true to false

Does this fix it?

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browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches seems to have worked yes, but right now i can still do DuckDuckGo searches, maybe I need to restart firefox for this change to take effect. If that is the case, I will need for my current download to be finished before closing Firefox. If not, then it didn't work :/

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Hello AmandineFromEarth,

Jscher2000 also mentioned this preference :

keyword.enabled and set its value to false.

And : yes, after you've changed the values, you should close and restart Firefox in order for the change(s) to take effect .....

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This screenshot illustrates the difference between keyword.enabled being true versus false.