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Win10 FF 89.0 Home page, center search box, defaults to the top hearder search box. Solution?

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89.0 update

FF home page center search box.

When clicking on it, the cursor blinks as normal. When typing, it defaults to the header search box. Any solution?

89.0 update FF home page center search box. When clicking on it, the cursor blinks as normal. When typing, it defaults to the header search box. Any solution?

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

There is a preference for this:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox.

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

There is a preference for this:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox.

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Awesome. Thank you! (and big thanks for spelling it out. Found this answer elsewhere, but had no idea where about:config was).