Firefox disable search in the address bar

disable search in the address bar

Hi oitconz, setting keyword.enabled to false prevents Firefox from sending your input to your default search engine. However, I don't think what you're describing is a search problem.

Firefox will send input that looks like a valid server URL to your DNS service provider. If you type a word with no dots such as localhst and DNS says it does not exist, by default Firefox will retry with www. before it and .com after it. That is a separate feature you can disable.

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

(2) Search: In the search box above the list, type or paste keyw and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the keyword.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false

(4) Fixup: In the search box above the list, type or paste fix and pause while the list is filtered

(5) Double-click the browser.fixup.alternate.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false