How do I stop Firefox going directly to the wrong address when entering a web address?
Since the new update to 48.0.2 I now have two issues:
1) As I type a web address in the address bar, a long list of possible sites or history drops down. Can I turn that off? It's very annoying.
2) as I am typing the address, Firefox sometimes takes me to any old website that starts with those letters, so I am constantly having to stop and start again. they may be from History or not, but if I were to, for example, start on this page's address I'd get to suppor.... and then find I've been directed to some other site starting with su - again, very, very annoying and it's only started since the last upgrade. I'm on Windows 10 desktop.
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Hi James:
For #1, you can deselect history and bookmarks on the Options page. See: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs#w_changing-your-location-bar-settings
For #2, are you saying that what you are typing has been replaced with something different, or that Firefox has prematurely proceeded to a site before you finished entering the address?
If you don't want addresses to appear in the bar as you type, you can turn that off to possibly avoid this problem:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.urlbar.autoFill preference to switch the value from true to false
Any improvement?
Thanks for the quick reply. I've done #1 and that's fine, thank you.
I'll have a look at #2 now. It doesn't always happen but sometimes I type in the first two letter or so and find the page changes to a Google search page, or another web address and that address appears in the address bar as I am typing. It's a bit random. I will see if fixing #1 has changed this, if not will follow your instructions for #2. Thank you again!