In Linux Mint can I disable the search dropdown in the urlbar?
Hello - I am running the latest Mint/FFx 71 and I am typing an address in the urlbar and it suggest a site or search with a drop down just below the urlbar. I have turned off search suggestions. Tried disabling all of the urlbar items in about:config and even created a userAcccount.css file in a chrome folder in my user profile. Nothing seems to work.
Is there a way to disable this?
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Here you go:
Open about:config and find the pref toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and make it true.
Open your profile folder. Use about:support if that makes it easier.
Close Firefox.
Create a directory /chrome in your profile directory if it does not exist.
Create a new text file to be saved as userChrome.css in that directory.
Paste this in the file and save it:
#urlbar-results { display:none;
}
restart teh Firefox and let us know how you get on. :)
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In Preferences where you turned off Search Suggestions, click the link below entitled "Change preferences for browsing history, bookmarks, and tab suggestions", and clear these checkboxes as well.
Yes I have cleared those also. I still get the dropdown.
Oh, blergh.
Maybe some of the search prefs are stuck or borked? You mentioned the URL bar prefs; did you look at the items when searching browser.prefs in about:config?
Pics attached to show my settings and the effect.
Unfortunately all the settings are verified and I still have the dropdown. In your last pic it shows the dropdown = beepboop searching duckduckgo.
That's what I want to get rid of :)
I was able to do this before on my windows machines by changing prefs in about:config, modifying settings and then ultimately creating a css file.
I would think if you could modify FF in Windows, you should be able to tweak in a sort of similar fashion for Linux.
I will continue to try a few more things. . . . appreciate your help.
You want to see absolutely zero dropdown? I'll have a poke and see which setting it may be. I had intended it to be a guide if you had not seen all those prefs before. I hadn't tried to turn off all of them yet.
edit: I know where it lives. Working on a way to silence it.
Modified
الحل المُختار
Here you go:
Open about:config and find the pref toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and make it true.
Open your profile folder. Use about:support if that makes it easier.
Close Firefox.
Create a directory /chrome in your profile directory if it does not exist.
Create a new text file to be saved as userChrome.css in that directory.
Paste this in the file and save it:
#urlbar-results { display:none;
}
restart teh Firefox and let us know how you get on. :)
Modified
Excellent worked like a charm! I already re-used my userChrome.css I created before with this line:
"#urlbar-results { display:none; }"
what made the difference was changing:
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to TRUE
Thanks so much, knew it had to be some minor toggle and a file :)
Modified
Aha, good deal. I am glad some part of that process worked for you.
Also thanks for paring down the entry to only what is necessary, I wouldn't have guessed it was that minimal from inspecting chrome and the style entries i found after looking it up. The other entry people were including at the top of their css wasn't necessary, either. Will edit my previous post to reflect that.
You can alternatively set this pref to 0 (zero) on the about:config page to disable the location bar drop-down list.
- browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
Had the same issue in Linux, and the usual suspects listed above (that work in Windows) did not work.
cor-el's tip re "maxRichResults" was the only one I needed to apply - thanks!