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Upgrading to Firefox 68 enabled the address bar search dropdown, can I disable this?

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After an upgrade to FF68 the address bar now has a drop down and it uses my search provider. I previously was able to type a term or website just in the bar itself, no drop down, no clutter.

Is there any way to turn this off? I had previously created a css file in my chrome directory and it was working just fine.

Chrome.css file with the following content in order to hide the addressbar dropdown-menu:

  1. PopupAutoCompleteRichResult {
 display: none;

}

I have also gone into about:config and previously changed settings like url.dropdown.search or whatever it was. Turned off search suggestions and a couple others.

Should I modify or check anything else?

After an upgrade to FF68 the address bar now has a drop down and it uses my search provider. I previously was able to type a term or website just in the bar itself, no drop down, no clutter. Is there any way to turn this off? I had previously created a css file in my chrome directory and it was working just fine. Chrome.css file with the following content in order to hide the addressbar dropdown-menu: #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult { display: none; } I have also gone into about:config and previously changed settings like url.dropdown.search or whatever it was. Turned off search suggestions and a couple others. Should I modify or check anything else?
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Why just not set the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 in about:config?

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Why just not set the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 in about:config?

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Excellent that worked like a charm! I had tried several other about:config settings over many different versions, and they seemed to work just fine. Then about 2 or 3 versions ago they all stopped. Someone suggested the css file and that worked up until version 68,

Thank you!

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In Firefox 68 with the change from XUL to XHTML, you need this code in userChrome.css.

#urlbar-results { display:none!important; }
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Right on! That works too! While the first solution got rid of text and most of the drop down (there was still a tiny white bar showing if that makes sense) This one removed it completely.

Thanks both for taking a look!

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Is it possible to remove just the top "Visit" suggestion from the dropdown? This was possible from Firefox 43 and Firefox 67 using:

#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult richlistitem[actiontype="visiturl"]{
  display:none !important;
}

Thanks Luke

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This panel uses code in the HTML namespace and this has the code to be placed above this line. You can alternatively use a separate file for this namespace and use @import url(""); This rule also needs to be above the default XUL @namespace line in userChrome.css.

Add code to the userChrome.css file above the default @namespace line.


@import url("chrome-html.css");

#urlbar-results #urlbarView-row-0 {
  display:none !important;
}

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */