In the latest Firefox Nightly build, when you type something in the URL bar, first suggestion in the dropdown will be showed with ‘Search with [Default Search engine]’, for instance, if you use Google as default search engine, ‘search with Google’ will appear first for that phrase or query (check the screenshot below).
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Firefox 41 with unified complete feature
This is because of Mozilla’s new feature ‘unified complete ‘and it can be disabled by toggling browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete preference in about:config
This feature has been planned for Firefox 34, but delayed and now landed in Firefox 41 nightly.
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For more information on this, read this post.
What’s your take on this change? Has this annoyed you?
“What’s your take on this change? Has this annoyed you?”
It’s not on Stable, It’s on Nightly.
I know its on Nightly, I mentioned it in the Post, but Mozilla may roll out this to stable version users also in future.
To be clear, the first row is just showing what will happen (and already happens today) by confirming with Enter what’s typed in the urlbar. It’s not adding a new behavior, nor trying to force users to do a search.
From my point of view, totally useless, distracting, and a waste of space;
And I do not understand why they deprecated the `browser.urlbar.unifiedcompletebrowser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete` pref in v49, making impossible to get rid of the annoying ‘visit’ link in the suggestions.