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I want to turn off the search in adress bar

Angel García

"You can turn it off by entering about:config in the URL bar and switching browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false."

That doesn't work anymore. Since the last update, the search went back to the adress bar, doesn't matter if that option is mark as true or false.

Please stop making that the searches go to the adress bar. Nobody likes it.

"You can turn it off by entering about:config in the URL bar and switching browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false." That doesn't work anymore. Since the last update, the search went back to the adress bar, doesn't matter if that option is mark as true or false. Please stop making that the searches go to the adress bar. Nobody likes it.

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Unbelievable. Version 148.0.2 (the last update): Fixed an issue where searches entered in the Firefox Home search field were incorrectly redirected to the address bar for some users who had disabled search handoff behavior via advanced settings. (Bug 2017049)