billyellis
Posts: 154 +1
OK, this is driving me crazy. I hate having my typos redirected to search pages. I have always hated searches being run automatically without my express consent. And for all the crap that goes with IE, at least you had the option to disable the search from the address bar.
I also tried to disable the search suggestions (for when you actually are in a search window) by changing browser.search.suggest.enabled to false, but even after restarting FF the search suggestions still pop up.
Here's what I am looking for: when I type something into a box, I want NOTHING to pop up with any suggestions. I am not an 80-year old AOL user. I can type. I don't need a list of suggestions after every letter I add to my search string or URL. It's f-ing irritating.
I went through all config settings under the "search" filter and tweaked them where I thought it might help (e.g. removing entries for defaultenginename, order.1, order.2), but nothing worked.
Using "browser" as the filter, there are several more instances of google that show up under these:
browser.contentHandlers
browser.safebrowsing
So that looks promising, but I don't want to go messing around blind with too many settings.
Can someone please tell me how to disable all automatic searches and pop up search suggestions in FF (2.0.0.17, running on XP Home)?? I went to the FF forum, but the search disable entries I found there were all for pre-release beta-versions of 3.0.
Thanks.
I also tried to disable the search suggestions (for when you actually are in a search window) by changing browser.search.suggest.enabled to false, but even after restarting FF the search suggestions still pop up.
Here's what I am looking for: when I type something into a box, I want NOTHING to pop up with any suggestions. I am not an 80-year old AOL user. I can type. I don't need a list of suggestions after every letter I add to my search string or URL. It's f-ing irritating.
I went through all config settings under the "search" filter and tweaked them where I thought it might help (e.g. removing entries for defaultenginename, order.1, order.2), but nothing worked.
Using "browser" as the filter, there are several more instances of google that show up under these:
browser.contentHandlers
browser.safebrowsing
So that looks promising, but I don't want to go messing around blind with too many settings.
Can someone please tell me how to disable all automatic searches and pop up search suggestions in FF (2.0.0.17, running on XP Home)?? I went to the FF forum, but the search disable entries I found there were all for pre-release beta-versions of 3.0.
Thanks.