I am having trouble with firefox auto-suggest/auto-complete
I am having a problem with firefox auto completeing things for me. I want it to STOP! It is frustrating me.
here is a video of one of the symptoms of my problem. https://youtu.be/a0M5lhBepqQ
When I made this video I was super frustrated, please excuse my tone.
Chosen solution
Hi alpugh, thank you for the video. The critical behavior here is that in Firefox 89, the cursor is set to jump from the search bar -- which is strictly about searching -- to the address bar, which has URL autofill.
There is a preference to change that back, but it does take a bit of work to find it because of the unusual name:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false
Success?
More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox.
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In about:config, try setting browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites to false.
I managed to stop getting any unwanted suggestions, and I can't remember 100% everything I did, but I think this is the one setting that can't be accessed from the GUI and needs to be done using about:config.
Chosen Solution
Hi alpugh, thank you for the video. The critical behavior here is that in Firefox 89, the cursor is set to jump from the search bar -- which is strictly about searching -- to the address bar, which has URL autofill.
There is a preference to change that back, but it does take a bit of work to find it because of the unusual name:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false
Success?
More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox.
Hey, JS, You did it! Thank you!
Now,... can you help get my cell phone and my remote control/cable tv to behave properly?
:)
Modified by alpugh