Hello ditaviz, try the next :

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter. The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear.
2. Click I'll be careful, I promise! to continue to the about:config page.
3. copy and paste in the search field the next bold browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
4. double-click on it, to make it false
5. close the about:config tab, exit firefox and restart it.

thank you

Do you still want to see other suggestions (bookmarks, history)?

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs
• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/search-web-address-bar

The location bar drop-down list can show history items, bookmarked pages, pages opened in tabs, and search suggestions. You can set what suggestions show when you enter an URL in the location/address bar bar via Tools > Options > Privacy

• Location Bar: When using the location bar, suggest:
  History
  Bookmarks
  Open tabs

@ cor-el: thanks, but the problem was that setting the preferences in the preferences pane did not give any results. Anyhow, I wanted to keep all those (History, Bookmarks and Opentabs) but remove the Search option (as in the function of the Search field, i.e. it would search with my chosen search engine, as in e.g. Safari).

@ ideato: thanks! it worked like a charm (and now I'm drooling over all the other possibilities...!)

If you go to Tools - Options - Privacy then where you see Location Bar there are the 3 boxes that you can uncheck.

I have unchecked those boxes but they keep getting populate after FF is shutdown and reopened.

Does anyone else see this problem? How can I fix this problem?

Note: The following is set to false browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete = false

Firefox 48.0 b1

Note that support for browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete will be removed in Firefox 49.

• Bug 1223728 - Remove the unifiedcomplete pref and the urlinline component

Thanks.

Does that mean the awesome bar or Location bar as it is now will no longer be a part of FF?

If so great.

No, this simply means that you can no longer set the pref to false to remove the visit item from the autocomplete drop-down list and you would have to use code in userChrome.css.

• [/questions/]: Remove "... - Visit" and "Search with ..." entries in location bar

cor-el said

No, this simply means that you can no longer set the pref to false to remove the visit item from the autocomplete drop-down list and you would have to use code in userChrome.css.

• [/questions/]: Remove "... - Visit" and "Search with ..." entries in location bar

Thanks for the clarification.

You're welcome.

If you do not keep changes after a restart or otherwise have problems with preferences, see:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

cor-el said

You're welcome. If you do not keep changes after a restart or otherwise have problems with preferences, see:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

Thanks, I will check that out.