If you enter a single word with no spaces, Firefox should send it to search first, but there is a setting to try a lookup first. Could you check:

(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.

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

(3) If the browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words preference is bolded and "modified" or "user set" to true, double-click it to restore the default value of false

Otherwise, hmm, it shouldn't do that unless you see it before you press Enter. In other words, if in-URL-bar autofill is going to load a domain, you should be able to see that before it happens.

If you want to disable that autofill feature, in about:config:

(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.autoFill preference to switch the value from true to false

jscher2000 schrieb

If you enter a single word with no spaces, Firefox should send it to search first, but there is a setting to try a lookup first. Could you check: (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. (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste fixup and pause while the list is filtered (3) If the browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words preference is bolded and "modified" or "user set" to true, double-click it to restore the default value of false Otherwise, hmm, it shouldn't do that unless you see it before you press Enter. In other words, if in-URL-bar autofill is going to load a domain, you should be able to see that before it happens. If you want to disable that autofill feature, in about:config: (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.autoFill preference to switch the value from true to false

its default value is on false when i checked it i just checked multiple words, it doesnt do anything with multiple words with space inbetween, if i press enter it shows the loading sign in the tab i started the search but it doesnt do anything

So keyword.enabled = true, which is necessary. If that were false, you would expect "Hmm. That address doesn’t look right." for your two-word query, so it seems as if Firefox is trying to search.

(The keyword.URL preference doesn't exist as far as Firefox 57 is concerned. Firefox ignores that preference and uses your default search engine. You can right-click > Reset the preference to clear it, although it would not be expected to make any diference.)

Could you test in Firefox's Safe Mode? In Safe Mode, Firefox temporarily deactivates extensions, hardware acceleration, and some other advanced features to help you assess whether these are causing the problem.

If Firefox is not running: Hold down the Shift key when starting Firefox.

If Firefox is running: You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using either:

• "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
• Help menu > Restart with Add-ons Disabled

and OK the restart.

Both scenarios: A small dialog should appear. Click "Start in Safe Mode" (not Refresh).

Any improvement?

i started FF in safe mode - during safe mode its the same - after restarting its the same aswell

Is Firefox able to send searches to Google from other built-in search bars/boxes, such as

• optional Search bar on the main toolbar
• new tab page (Ctrl+t)

Is anything else odd happening with the address bar behavior, such as not getting any bookmark or history suggestions in the drop-down panel when you are typing in the bar?

Problem solved: default search was google (default) and because there were no other options available i expecte it to be the real one, somehow it seems it wasnt i deleted all search engines and restarted ff, after that somehow alot more existed and along those was the one named "Google" without default

that one works, i wonder how the other one got in there though oO

well nvm, thanks for your time and hel

Thank you for reporting back on the "unofficial" Google search plugin. It's hard to say where you acquired that but you might be able to guess that if you decompress the file and view the paths associated with the search plugin. To do that:

(1) Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either

• "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
• (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information
• type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter

In the first table on the page, next to Profile Folder, click the "Open Folder" button. This should launch a new window listing various files and folders in Windows Explorer.

(2) Leaving that window open, replace the Troubleshooting Information page with this tool:

https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/searchjson.html

(3) Drag and drop the search.json.mozlz4 onto the tool and then click the Save Uncompressed JSON button to call up a download dialog -- you can either:

(A) save the file and then open it in Firefox, or

(B) tell Firefox to open the file directly (this isn't safe with all file types, but works for JSON; the file will be saved to the TEMP folder)

(4) Firefox uses a structured viewer to display JSON files and somewhere under "engines" (where numbering starts with 0) you will find the pretender and you can check the _loadPath and "template" entries under "urls" to see what it is supposed to do