Firefox new tab has a box in the middle of the page for you to click in and enter text to search in your default search engine - and it immediately starts typing in the URL bar. IF I WANTED TO USE THE URL BAR I WOULD CLICK THERE.
Throws me off every time.
in about:config change browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false
I’m more wondering why you’re clicking on the completely unnecessary box to begin with. It never made sense to add these, might as well just render a giant upwards arrow.
Well … the box is just a remenant of the search web pages.
I think it does make sense to have a separate search box for web-only searches tough. Say you’re sitting next to a coworker and you’re talking about Anna Karenina and you want to look something up, but typing “an…” in the address bar will pull up “Anastasia likes it big and hard” from your bookmarks because you forgot to disable bookmark search
It’s open source software, raise an issue/bug report if this is unexpected behavior. The community is open and responsive to feedback. Posting here won’t get it fixed.
To be fair, moving to the top allows for much more space for the list of predictions, so there’s at least some benefit to ir
I can’t recall this wasn’t a thing. Mildly infuriating surely. What’s really infuriating though…
Also, if my single keyword search matches an url in my history, it will happily open the url instead of doing a search. Aargh…
Happens quite a lot so I learned to hit the space-bar after a single keyword search.
That’s a feature, not a bug, and I personally love it.
There’s an about:config setting for that, too. browser.urlbar.autoFill = false
I like the autofill too, just not when I type in the search bar. I like the url and search functions separated in their own bars.
Type the thing, when autocomplete is shown, press backspace; then search. The backspace will remove the completion
This happens to me often. I don’t learn, unlike you.
Always trying to go too fast.
