Hi Mark, let me insert a picture here which I hope will help us communicate about exactly what you do NOT want to see in the address bar drop-down. This is from an older version, but hopefully is close enough for discussion:

Since you mentioned showing searches from your other bars, do you mean that you don't want to see search history entries in the drop-down?

Or if the problem is the cursor jumping from the search bar in the new tab page up to the address bar, that doesn't require changing the address bar search feature, it has its own preference. The hardest part is learning its 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.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future. Since I use this one myself, I feel comfortable mentioning it.

(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

jscher2000,

Thank you so much trying to help me. I apologize for my ignorance.

Yes, the problem is the cursor jumping from the search bar in the new tab page up to the address bar. I do not want that to happen. And you fixed it!! Thank you so much!!

However, now when I type in the search bar in the new tab page I get search suggestions dropping down from the search bar. If you can help me get rid of that drop down from the search bar I would appreciate it.

Again, thanks for responding.

You can turn off the dynamic search engine suggestions on the Settings page, search panel (Search suggestions in Firefox):

You'll probably still get a drop-down with the row of buttons to make it easy to switch among search engines.

Thanks again for your reply. I'm still getting search suggestions under my search bar. I did uncheck the box on the settings page that says: Provide Search Suggestions. Actually I tried to uncheck all of the boxes there.

However, one of the lines says, "Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results". That box will not "uncheck" for me. A check mark remains in that box even though I removed the check mark in the line that says: Provide Search Suggestions.

Could this be keeping me with search suggestions below my search bar even though it references the address bar and not the search bar?

You are getting dynamic search engine suggestions (magnifying glass icon at the left) as you type, even with "Provide search suggestions" being unchecked?

Or are they some other kind of suggestion such as search history (clock icon at the left) or a general suggestion about searching with a particular site?

Ok, I checked again and it is NOT with the hour glass. It looks like things I have searched for before so I guess that is search history. As you suspected, huh? So I suppose I can live with search history suggestions. They may come in handy. Thanks again for all your time and help. I love using computers, but I still have lots to learn. Blessings, mark