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Disable Search in Address Bar on Androi

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hydermanpete79
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I have been able to block all search in the address bar on Firefox for Windows but cannot find a setting to do the same in Android.

It is an ADDRESS BAR after all and a HUGE security risk to find search in the same area

I have been able to block all search in the address bar on Firefox for Windows but cannot find a setting to do the same in Android. It is an ADDRESS BAR after all and a HUGE security risk to find search in the same area

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Paul
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Hi

These are the option you can change to disable a level of the search functionality in Firefox for Android:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-my-default-search-engines-firefox-android#w_edit-search-settings

Even with these all turned off the search bar will still allow you to search the web using the search engine that you have set.

hydermanpete79
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So safety and security mean NOTHING on Windows I can totally disable search from the address bar which make it secure - Will have to SERIOUSLY consider ditching Android

Paul
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Thank you for your feedback.