Turn off Search Suggestions in Address bar in Firefox. Till now Firefox offers Search suggestions in Search bar, recently Mozilla has started showing search suggestions in the address bar on Nightly also by default, the preference ‘Related Searches from the default the search engine’ controls this feature, there is an option available in the about:cofig as well for this.
Firefox’s Search Suggestions feature in the URL bar is now optional
Seems after criticism, Mozilla has changed the mind and now made a display of Search Suggestions feature in location bar optional, but the user will be prompted with a message underneath the address bar while typing: ‘would you like to improve your search experience with suggestions‘.
You need to click either ‘Yes’ or ‘Not’, if not, you’ be nagged throughout and after the session with that message unless or until you set ‘browser.urlbar.userMadeSearchSuggestionsChoice‘ to ‘true‘.
If you click ‘Yes’, Search suggestions from Search engine will be fetched and shown in real-time when you type, and you can notice ‘Related searches from the default search engine‘ option in the location bar in Privacy enabled as a result of this.
If you click ‘NO’, the feature will be disabled and so the option in the location bar option as a result of this.
Disable Search Suggestion in Firefox address bar
In future, if Mozilla forces this on you, you can easily turn it off by
Unchecking ‘Related searches from the default search engine’ in Location bar of Privacy in Options
Or
Visit about:config and change ‘browser.urlbar.suggest.searches’ preference value to ‘false’.
when does mozilla have intention to incorporate this option in regular (stable) version of FF?
They may not, seems as if it has been already removed from Nightly.
It’s back, and it Sucks Big Time! People are constantly installing and updating ad-blockers, in part to stop the constant, annoying, useless popups and mozilla is building them into the browser. Glaring example of changing things (for the worse) that don’t need changing to try and justify their pointless drain on the payroll.
Firefox blows now. It gets really slow on certain websites, particularly when several instances of the website are open it different tabs. Sites I have noticed causing this issue include Amazon, Bing, and recently Wikipedia. I use Pale Moon, which is based on a heavily modified and optimized version of the core code of an older pre-suck build of FF and never have any problems. It is consistently faster and has all the old user customizations we loved so much that Mozilla, in their infinite window, decided we did not need. EDIT: by now, Pale Moon is barely recognizable as FF under the hood, and is slated to become even more so in the new feature. It is it’s own animal now; a much faster, smarter, and better animal….PM is a cheetah, and FF is a sloth…well maybe not a sloth, more like a rhinoceros.
P.S. most, but not all, FF extensions will work with PM and with some fairly tweaking (including turning add-on compatibility checking off) you can make nearly any extension work.
Unfortunately I have yet to find a good solution to the address bar search suggestions issue. In both PM and the current build of FF, there are no suggestions in the address bar anymore, just in the search bar right next to it. So not a huge problem, but it does waste time when you click on the address bar instead and start typing and no suggestions come up. It would be more streamlined and productive to eliminate the search bar and just permanently integrate it’s features into the address bar.
Aren’t they, Google, doing search from the address bar so that they have an excuse to monitor every address you go to?