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So it looks as though Mozilla will have us use the "awesomebar" whether we like it or not, and the only options are to turn of the URL history entirely, or search through URLs that are irrelevant.
There used to be an option called browser.urlbar.richResults that allowed you to turn this off, but for unclear reasons, this was disabled. Any chance of the Flock team putting it back in?
Yes, I know about oldbar. That doesn't change the behavior of the address bar, it only makes it look different. I want the awesomebar to be disabled.
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Why don't you like it? I find it's so much useful.
Anyway, I think I saw an extension that keeps the old behaviour of the address bar, but I can't find it anymore.
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I must agree, I do not like the awesomebar. Only 1/5 things I type in show me what I want. Anyone know how to disable it.
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The answer is so easy to find on Internet.
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No, it's not. the Oldbar extension changes the appearance, but not the behavior. The other suggestions I've seen disable the URL history altogether. The option of browser.urlbar.richResults did actually return the old URL bar, but that option (even as a user.js preference) was disabled in Firefox 3 for some reason.
LakotaGhost
There is no way that I know of that can turn the awesomebar off entirely. But this is what I did and found from CNet and it does work well.
Do this, but be careful also...
type in the url bar, About:config
The search till you find, browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped change that to "true"
search till you find, in same area, browser.urlbar.maxrichresults of which I changed to "3"
I hope that this helps you all, it helps, but does not turn the bar off or anything.
Lakota
chyan
I have a better solution download "old location bar"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637
And after that, i change the browser.urlbar.maxrichresults to -1.
The result? "aswesomebar" no more. Behaves like FF2's more now.
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LakotaGhost's response worked well for me too. I endorse it.