Just a quick How-To. I can’t stand the drop down menu in the Firefox address bar. Here are the 2 keys to change the behavior.
Type: about:config in the address bar and navigate down to:
- To go back to the old style of drop down that only showed where you had already been:
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped change false to true by double-clicking on it.
- To change the number of items in the drop down: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults change to a number you want. 0=none (This looks like you’ve disabled the drop down but you really haven’t. I haven’t found an easy way to actually disable it.
Double-Bonus time:
I use Google as my home page and I hate the new “suggestions” in the search box. Want to get rid of it? Change your home page / bookmark / search page to this url:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0
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setting browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to -1 will disable the Awesome Bar
Bill, I don’t see any official documentation that says the behavior of -1 is any different than 0.
Though, they do both seem to work the same.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
Here http://www.kennycarlile.net/2008/06/17/disable-firefox-3-awesomebar/ that will help.
Also you might wanna do this set browser.urlbar.search.chunkSize to 0
This is the most complete one http://bbayles.googlepages.com/disable_slb.html.
In one short post you have cured my two greatest surfing peeves. Thank You
I’m using Firefox 3.0.3 on WinXP Pro SP3 and only one of these mods worked for me. I HATE the new drop down address bar! The old one with a simple list of URL’s was perfect as far as I’m concerned. No icons, no site descriptions. That’s the mod that doesn’t work for me.
I was able to increase the number of URL’s in the list so that was a help. Thanks! I read visit your web site daily BTW. I noted this article back on Sept. 11th, but just now got around to trying it out. Anyway, thanks again.
When you change the settings back, the list is still there. How do you delete the list itself? Where is it stored? And why is Mozilla so intent on saving your entire browsing history without you knowing it?