You can no longer revert back to old Search bar interface in Firefox. With Firefox 34, Mozilla introduced a new search interface or so called one click searches UI, for which, underneath the search suggestions for your search term, you’ll see an array of search engine buttons.
These buttons allow user to find a search term directly on a specific site quickly and easily. Till now, Mozilla allowed to disable one click Searches UI in Firefox browser through an about:config preference browser.search.showOneOffButtons, now the old search UI, its code and the preference have been fully removed from Nigthly, which is at version 43.
READ: Mozilla makes Search Suggestions for Firefox in Address bar as Optional
Make Firefox’s New Search UI look similar to the old Search bar UI
So Firefox 43 will miss oneoffbuttons preference. The new Search UI is here to stay, so get used to it or make it more like to the old one, here is how.
1. Click on Menu > Options > Search
2. Under ‘One-click Search engines’, keep the default search engine ticked, and uncheck all other search engines, now the Search bar looks like this when you type a search term
READ: How to Restore Firefox’s Old Search UI and Preferences Window
Classic Theme Restorer since 1.4.1beta1 has an option to bring it back (or way similar)
Thanks for letting us know about it.
Use ‘Classic theme restorer’ add-on v 1.4.4, go to options, General UI (1), check ‘old search (experimental)’
Praise you! Thank you for the information.
Not that anybody cares, but I’ll quit using Firefox as soon as they kill that “old search”. Searching with mousegestures for marked words and phrases in different databases (discogs, amzon … whatever) is essential for me.
My Firefox just upgraded to version 43, and it’s now impossible to revert back to the old search. How f**cking annoying. I can’t stand that one-click bullshit. We can’t select a search engine and be done with it if whe have a lot of searches to do on that same website, and instead have to select again and again and again the icon in that stupid grid display with tiny icons and no names !
Check this https://techdows.com/2015/10/how-to-restore-firefoxs-old-search-ui-and-preferences-window.html
Yep, I added this theme restorer (life-saver), but this is just a hack and sooner or later I suppose there will be a new Firefox version that won’t be compatible with it…
mozila is idiotic team monkey give back old search bar omfg