I also do not believe that 0 people have this problem because I see the posts from other disappointed consumers.

Hi

Thank you for your question about searching the web from the default new tab page in Firefox.

The preference that could have been set in the past was not a standard setting and was unsupported. As part of forthcoming work to improve the new tab search experience, that preference has been withdrawn as we understand it was only being used by a small part of the user population.

We welcome your feedback on this matter at our feedback site where your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

Hello

The preference, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar Is it the subject https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1560360

So February and still no answer how to disable this?

Hello

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339983 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1565347#answer-1799723, is it your question.

personally I can't fathom the amount of dumb it takes to give you a search box in the middle of the screen but won't let you use it... just updated today an noticed they had to break this config feature so for now I just found a add-on (New Tab Override) and it auto makes my new tabs page googles site. (*add on allow's you to just have a normal google page on a new tab screen with a normal search box you can type in.... an not jumping around).

Hello

What is the relationship ? with New Tab Override.

A question under Firefox 147.0.3 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1565518 Apparently because https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2016227 The study below.

New Tab 149.1.20260121.51415 to Release 147.0.3 This rollout ships New Tab version 149.1.20260121.51415 to the Release channel for version 147.0.3

About the subject, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1542758#answer-1799907

The address bar is for addresses. The search box is for searches. It drives me nuts to have a search jump to the address bar. You call this a modern interface. Well, that doesn't make it better. Please give us back the option. I truly hate searching from the address bar.

One of the things I truly despise about Microsoft is that they always seem to tell you how to think and what is the right way to do your work. It is starting to look like Firefox is going the same way.

What is wrong with a config option? Mike

Hi all,

Again, sorry for the inconvenience. The team is working on implementing a modern embedded search UI for the New Tab. For now, unfortunately, you won't be able to change that behavior. The old code has been removed to clean up space for the new one.

Please also note that the people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other users volunteering their time (like me, Paul or Agent Virtuel), not Mozilla employees or developers. If you wish, you can leave feedback for developers on the Mozilla Connect website. Click the Firefox Menu button in the toolbar, click Help and select Share ideas and feedback…. Alternatively, you can use this link.

I'll mark this reply as a solution and lock the thread to prevent further unrelated discussions.