On Monday September 25th from 10PM EDT - 12AM EDT (2AM UTC - 4AM UTC on September 26th), we will be performing system maintenance on the Firefox Accounts databases for two hours. During the maintenance window, there will be brief periods of a few minutes where users will not be able to login to their accounts. Please try again at a later time.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

why is my start page search now searching from my address bar?

  • 2 replies
  • 1 has this problem
  • 39 views
  • Last reply by gerwen

gerwen
gerwen
more options

firefox updated itself today to 89.0 (64-bit) and now when i try to use the search bar on my firefox home page it jumps the text up to the address bar instead of typing into the search bar to search. i do not want to use my address bar to search... it's also annoying to try to use the search bar and have my text show up in another part of the screen.

actually, it doesn't even search, it just types the text in the address bar then tries to go to the address and fails.

how to i reverse this change?

firefox updated itself today to 89.0 (64-bit) and now when i try to use the search bar on my firefox home page it jumps the text up to the address bar instead of typing into the search bar to search. i do not want to use my address bar to search... it's also annoying to try to use the search bar and have my text show up in another part of the screen. actually, it doesn't even search, it just types the text in the address bar then tries to go to the address and fails. how to i reverse this change?

Chosen solution

found the solution on reddit, pasting it here for others that find this problem. 


   Open about:config
   Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false
Read this answer in context 👍 1

All Replies (2)

gerwen
gerwen Question owner
more options

adding an image.

gerwen
gerwen Question owner
more options

Chosen Solution

found the solution on reddit, pasting it here for others that find this problem. 


   Open about:config
   Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false