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How do I turn off autocomplete in the browser bar?

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claudori
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With the newest update for firefox, the browser bar now autocompletes website names for you. How do I turn this off? I prefer the older way where if you don't insert www. it would google it for you now, there is no way to do that. If I type firefox in there and press enter, it would direct me to firefox.com even if I wanted to google it. How do I turn this off?

With the newest update for firefox, the browser bar now autocompletes website names for you. How do I turn this off? I prefer the older way where if you don't insert www. it would google it for you now, there is no way to do that. If I type firefox in there and press enter, it would direct me to firefox.com even if I wanted to google it. How do I turn this off?

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dumdidadida
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Hi,

You can try to set browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled to false in about:config.

about:config Entries

cor-el
cor-el
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You can also set the Boolean pref browser.urlbar.autoFill to false on the about:config page if you want to keep using the drop down list.

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