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Get rid of address bar search

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I like to set my home page to my search engine, and I want to type on the page in the nice long search field there, not on the d---d address bar! The following preferences have all been offered as fixes to eliminate searching in the address bar, but none of them are currently working for me in FF 102.0.1:

Do about:config; search for the browser.urlbar.suggest.searches preference setting it to false.

Also browser.fixup.alternate.enabled needs to be set to false Also browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches = false

Also to disable searching when typing an address (e.g. the URI fails to resolve and it tries to use a search engine) turn keyword.enabled to false.

What does work?

I like to set my home page to my search engine, and I want to type on the page in the nice long search field there, not on the d---d address bar! The following preferences have all been offered as fixes to eliminate searching in the address bar, but none of them are currently working for me in FF 102.0.1: Do about:config; search for the browser.urlbar.suggest.searches preference setting it to false. Also browser.fixup.alternate.enabled needs to be set to false Also browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches = false Also to disable searching when typing an address (e.g. the URI fails to resolve and it tries to use a search engine) turn keyword.enabled to false. What does work?

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browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar = false

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browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar = false

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Thanks much, that worked!