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How do i search in the main bar in the middle of the screen as apose to the web address bar?

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  • Valiny farany nomen'i rv4fun

All of a sudden (after a recent update I suppose) every time I start to type anything in the "search" in the middle of my "home" screen, the curser jumps to the address space in the toolbar. I hate that! I want to continue to use search in the middle of the screen as I have for years since I started using browsers. I've tried looking at the setting for "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar" and it is set to "false" as was recommended in another post some years ago. What do I have to do to revert back to the way it was before this change was forced on me?

All of a sudden (after a recent update I suppose) every time I start to type anything in the "search" in the middle of my "home" screen, the curser jumps to the address space in the toolbar. I hate that! I want to continue to use search in the middle of the screen as I have for years since I started using browsers. I've tried looking at the setting for "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar" and it is set to "false" as was recommended in another post some years ago. What do I have to do to revert back to the way it was before this change was forced on me?

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rv4fun, the functionality has been temporarily removed, and should be made available again (via the about:config setting) in the update due on March 10th.

Let's keep this request open until the "fix" is actually released. (I'll believe it when I see it.) I've spent several hours/days searching for a fix and coming up empty. I hate what's happening now every time I try to search with Firefox.

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