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I am running Nightly 14.0a1 (2012-03-19) and cannot turn of the auto-complete function for location bar. I have reset auto complete in about:config and also tried clear histroy and ccleamer. Any suggestions would be apprecited?

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steconnor
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ideato
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See if this helps: Changing autocomplete behavior - Firefox

i'm not so sure because you are in Nightly.

thank you

cor-el
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Looks that they have changed the default value of the browser.urlbar.autoFill pref to true in Firefox 13+, so auto-fill gets enabled by default.

You can toggle the value of the pref to false with a double click to disable auto-fill in the location bar.

steconnor
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Thanks for the replies. Cor-el your suggestion worked perfectly.

cor-el
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You're welcome