Poll: how do people feel about the address bar in Firefox 75.0? (megabar – QuantumBar design update 1)
Poll: https://strawpoll.com/dkx61zeb
Reddit discussion of the poll: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fzd4s3/-/
Quotes from Mozilla's specification document, blog post, release notes and knowledge base article: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fwhlva/-/fn6cdbe/
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Hello Graham Perrin,
If you want to you could post this here :
Input page : https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/
Discourse : https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/firefox-development
Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/firefox
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Firefox
In case you're interested :
This is a temporary fix, but I am hoping that they will give us the opportunity to permanently disable this new feature.
Would you do this please :
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter. (ignore the warning)
Type in the search bar and look for the preference :
browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus
and set its value to false
Do the same with these preferences :
browser.urlbar.update1
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips
Then close and restart Firefox.
Modified by McCoy
Thanks, it's: already on Reddit (above) and Twitter. Now also in Discourse, https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/57491/8?u=grahamperrin
browser.urlbar.update1
Firefox will cease to respect this preference. Please see https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fwhlva/-/fmtahf2/ for an alternative approach.
Graham Perrin said
browser.urlbar.update1
Firefox will cease to respect this preference.
I know.
But I'm hoping that they will come to their senses.
  For now I have disabled this "new feature".