How do I separate my search engine from the address bar?
I am furious! EVERYTHING was working perfectly fine until I updated to the "new, improved" version and now I want to smash my computer with a sledge hammer. Actually I want to smash the hands and feet of the programmers who forced this onto my computer. Did it ever cross your mind to offer these things as an option as opposed to forcing me to opt out? I have been to about:config and disabled search and auto fill yet it still pops up every . I get it that some want this but forcing me to deal with it is asinine. Every time I type even one letter in the address bar a little drop down appears asking me if I want to search with DuckDuckGo. The answer is ALWAYS NO! If I wanted to search with DuckDuckGo I would be typing in the search bar. And because of this stuff that I don't want, didn't ask for, and have a tremendous disdain for, I am FORCED to deal with because someone thinks I need/want it. I am sick of this. I have been a proponent of Firefox for almost two decades but you just lost me with this.
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The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
Your message has a lot of ranting in it. About 90%. I'm not sure what the problem is. Something about DuckDuckGo?
If you could just ask the question without all the ranging, we can help.
Would you please continue in your original thread :
I don't know what version you were using before, but web searching from the address bar goes back many, many years. And the way to disconnect web search from the address bar remains exactly the same:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste keyw and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the keyword.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false
Now the explanatory line on the drop-down is relatively new; it probably dates back to Firefox 43. That can be hidden but not disabled. And there's really no need to disable it, it just tells you what will happen if you submit the current contents of the address bar.