How to Remove Search Dropdown from Address and Search Bars
Recently updated from 148 to 152 and it has added these dropdowns to both the address and search bars (see below screenshot) that require additional clicks to get past that I do not want. Ideally I would not have these (or would maybe have the search drop down appear AFTER the search field itself).
Behavior I don't want: searches to appear in address bar. Behavior I don't want: search drop down to appear in address bar at all. I require a clear delineation in my workflow for things I have actually visited (addresses) and things I am planning to visit (searches). Behavior I don't want: search drop down to appear in search bar between address bar and search bar (one tab click should take me from address bar to search bar - now it takes two tab clicks because of this drop down).
Resolutions I have tried: Going to "Settings > Search Engine Suggestions" and completely unclicking "show search suggestions". Going to "about:config" and setting the following fields to false: browser.urlbar.suggest.searches keyword.enabled browser.fixup.alternate.enabled
None of these actually remove the dropdown entirely from either the address bar or search bar.
How do I remove these drop downs aside from downgrading back to 148?
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Hello
Just to see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1588124
For illustration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nl0n9KePCU
about:config The preference, browser.urlbar.maxRichResults, default value 10, you can try, the value, 0
For the record, since the commenter above is throwing random solutions at the wall to see what sticks:
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults causes the number of dropdown results (autocomplete results when starting to type) to reduce/increase to whatever value you set; setting it to 0 means nothing will ever appear below the bar; it does not remove the search engine select drop down.
The correct solution is browser.search.widget.new to FALSE to remove the dropdown search engine list.
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