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Recent bug: "When using the location bar, suggest:" "Bookmarks" cannot be disabled anymore

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andel
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Hi,

I just noticed that I'm getting all my bookmarks as search suggestions in the Location Bar. I was turning it off before by unchecking Privacy / "When using the location bar, suggest:" / Bookmarks.

The checkbox is still unchecked, but has no effect anymore.

This might be related to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1148423

However, the author tries to remove history from suggestions, whereas I want to remove bookmarks.

I managed to solve it by setting browser.urlbar.autoFill;false

however, it's still a bug in the interface, which was introduced recently.

Andrej

Hi, I just noticed that I'm getting all my bookmarks as search suggestions in the Location Bar. I was turning it off before by unchecking Privacy / "When using the location bar, suggest:" / Bookmarks. The checkbox is still unchecked, but has no effect anymore. This might be related to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1148423 However, the author tries to remove history from suggestions, whereas I want to remove bookmarks. I managed to solve it by setting browser.urlbar.autoFill;false however, it's still a bug in the interface, which was introduced recently. Andrej

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cor-el
cor-el
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Did you check the browser.urlbar.suggest prefs on the about:config page?

Note that if you have visited a bookmark that this bookmark will become a history item.

andel
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browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark is set to false and is shown in bold - I guess due to non-default unchecked state of 'Bookmarks' option in the privacy settings.

I just tried setting browser.urlbar.suggest back to true - the bug is reproducible. The setting cor-el mentioned has no effect.

My history list is empty when I test this.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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These preferences control different things:

  • browser.urlbar.autoFill => server name suggestions that appear under the cursor in the address bar itself as you type
  • browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark, browser.urlbar.suggest.history => full URLs that appear in a drop-down below the address bar (bookmarks designated by a star icon)
cor-el
cor-el
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Can you clarify what you mean with "search suggestions"?

Is that about the top item in the drop-down list (search xxx or visit xxx) or is this about suggestions you see further down in the list?

andel
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Yes, it's the first item that is being pulled from my bookmarks.