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How do I decrease the number of suggestions in the "Awesome Bar"?

blind51de
blind51de
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Today, the location bar suddenly showed 12 sites when I start typing characters into it. Until now, it only ever showed 4. The settings only seem to let me pick whether the sites should be from Bookmarks/History/Both/Nothing.

I haven't installed any extensions lately, or updated FF at all in a long while. This is really disruptive, having it take up my whole screen. Please help me out.

Today, the location bar suddenly showed 12 sites when I start typing characters into it. Until now, it only ever showed 4. The settings only seem to let me pick whether the sites should be from Bookmarks/History/Both/Nothing. I haven't installed any extensions lately, or updated FF at all in a long while. This is really disruptive, having it take up my whole screen. Please help me out.

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As far as I know, the default has always been 12; 6 displayed with a slide bar on the right to scroll down to 6 more. You can set a hidden preference to whatever value you choose. See article on how to use about:config -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

  1. type about:config in the URL/Address bar and press the Enter key
  2. if you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
  3. Search = browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
  4. in the lower panel, double click on that item and set a numeric value for number of items
  5. close the about:config tab and test

See - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

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  • Question details
    Product Firefox
    Topic Customize controls, options and add-ons
    System Details
    • Windows 7
    • Firefox 12.0

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TheOldFox
TheOldFox 86 solutions 620 answers
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As far as I know, the default has always been 12; 6 displayed with a slide bar on the right to scroll down to 6 more. You can set a hidden preference to whatever value you choose. See article on how to use about:config -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

  1. type about:config in the URL/Address bar and press the Enter key
  2. if you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
  3. Search = browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
  4. in the lower panel, double click on that item and set a numeric value for number of items
  5. close the about:config tab and test

See - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

As far as I know, the default has always been 12; 6 displayed with a slide bar on the right to scroll down to 6 more. You can set a hidden preference to whatever value you choose. See article on how to use about:config -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config #type '''''about:config''''' in the URL/Address bar and press the Enter key #if you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful) #Search = browser.urlbar.maxRichResults #in the lower panel, double click on that item and set a numeric value for number of items #close the about:config tab and test See - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
John99
John99 971 solutions 13138 answers
Posted

The drop down will disappear as soon as you select something, so I do not find it disruptive.

Note by typing in a particular character you may restrict the results with a filter, for instance
# matches only page titles
^ History, @ Urls, * Bookmarks

The drop down will disappear as soon as you select something, so I do not find it disruptive. Note by typing in a particular character you may restrict the results with a filter, for instance <br /> # matches only page titles <br /> ^ History, @ Urls, * Bookmarks * [[Awesome Bar - Find your bookmarks, history and tabs when you type in the address bar#w_changing-results-on-the-fly]]_changing-results-on-the-fly
blind51de
blind51de
Posted

Question owner

I'm not interested in your opinion, John99.

Thank you for your assistance, TheOldFox.

I'm not interested in your opinion, John99. Thank you for your assistance, TheOldFox.
cor-el
cor-el
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Note that some extensions may be causing this issue that you only get a limited number of entries in the location bar drop down list.

If you have FastestFox:

  • FastestFox Options > General, uncheck "Enhance Awesomebar"
Note that some extensions may be causing this issue that you only get a limited number of entries in the location bar drop down list. *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes If you have FastestFox: *FastestFox Options > General, uncheck "Enhance Awesomebar"