When I type into the address bar the first option in the dropdown menu is always of the form 'visit' or 'search' how do I stop these from appearing?
Until today typing in the name of part of a site or page brought up a list of suggestions from my previous browsing. However, since 43 installed, the first option is now either visit:xxxx which is always a site, never a page, or when the string doesn't recognise a page it goes for search:what I've just typed.
I'd like to disable this, but I'm struggling to find the option for it.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
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You can set browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete to false to remove the Visit page suggestion from the drop down list.
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
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You can set browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete to false to remove the Visit page suggestion from the drop down list.
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
Thank-you.
That solved my issue.
That top item just describes what is going to happen if you press Enter or click the Go button:
- If there are no spaces in what you typed, usually that first row will show where "autofill" will take you if you press Enter or click Go.
- If there are spaces in what you typed, that first row will show what search engine will be used if you press Enter or click Go.
The preference change removes that informational line, but also disables adding search engine suggestions to the drop-down. If you later decide you want to have search engine suggestions displayed, you could re-enable the preference and use a custom style rule to hide the top line, either in Stylish or a userChrome.css file. For example:
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult richlistitem[type*="heuristic"] { display:none !important; }