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Don't think the Firefox 3 "awesome bar" is awesome? Here's how to disable it.
With Firefox 3's Download Day upon us, a lot of folks are getting their first peek at the newest version of the popular browser. One of the first things you'll notice is the "Awesome Bar," a new feature that drops down a list of sites from your history and bookmarks as you type. For example, you could type "d," and your bookmark for Download Squad would pop up, along with downforeveryoneorjustme.com, if you've recently visited it.
For some people, this is going to be handy, but others are going to hate it. We have mixed opinions about the Awesome Bar here at Download Squad, so we're going to show you how to turn it off. First, go to your Firefox settings by putting "about:config" into the location bar. Click past the warning message, and scroll down to browser.urlbar.maxRichResults. This sets how many recommendations the Awesome Bar will display -- it's 12 by default, but you want to change it to 0.
Now your location bar should act more the one you're used to from Firefox 2. It'll still autocomplete addresses of sites you've been to, but the behavior that's been annoying some people so much will be gone. Alternately, an extension called Oldbar will give you back Firefox 2's dropdown behavior.
[via Josh at Webware]
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Subscribe to commentsDannyJun 17th 2008 2:52PM
In Opera (which has a similar AnnoyingBar), go to "opera:config" and find "Addressbar Content Search" and uncheck it, hit save, and relief.
DannyJun 17th 2008 2:55PM
In Opera (which has a similar AnnoyingBar), go to "opera:config" and find "Addressbar Content Search" and uncheck it, hit save, and relief.
Gerard GadalJun 17th 2008 3:50PM
Setting RichResults to 0 won't disable it, it'll just make it fetch 0 results. Whenever you type into the URL box Firefox will still try to make a drop down list, fetch zero results, and make a thin box.
The difference is minor, but if you want the feature disabled (instead of gimped - there will be no slim box), set RichResults to -1.
Jay HathawayJun 17th 2008 3:54PM
I tried setting it to -1 and I was still getting several results. I'm not sure that works.
Gerard GadalJun 17th 2008 4:49PM
That's not good. Did you restart Firefox?
z0iidJun 17th 2008 4:29PM
FF 3.0 rc3? No Thanks. I'll wait until the 2 million users finish bug reporting. That is all this push is for, get more test users. BAD idea. New users who try this, may have a bad experience, thus leaving a bad taste in their mouth. Oh well.
JoshJun 17th 2008 4:50PM
Um... the final version was released today. And RC3 is, from what I have seen, exactly what Firefox 3 is just without the RC3 at the end. RC3 was the same as RC2 as well except for one bug fix on OS X only.
EoghanJun 17th 2008 4:39PM
I find the Addons window opening when you install an addon and restart way more annoying, any about:config voodoo way to disable it showing when you restart?
emmzeeJun 17th 2008 6:00PM
Small correction, it's actually browser.urlbar.maxRichResults ... but thanks for posting this! :)
QuikboyJun 17th 2008 8:50PM
IE7 already has the AwesomeBar, though it's not called anything special.
GreyedJun 19th 2008 3:31PM
This actually does not help. All this does is remove the returns results. It does not get the old search behavior back. A behavior that was available until 3.0b3 through an about:config tweak but was removed with what amounted to, "deal with it" from the devs to the many people complaining about it on Bugzilla. Guess they figured they're big enough to give the middle finger to their users in the same manner that the closed-source people have been doing for years.
JimJun 20th 2008 4:20PM
The specific behaviour I want back is the matching to what I type, which, unfortunately, isn't available either by the urlbar settings or by adding Oldbar. This is a killer for me: when I type "th" I expect to see www.theregister.co.uk, not a zillion sites with "The" in their name.
Opera still looks good, though.
sawoJun 20th 2008 5:35PM
Quikboy IE7 have nothing - try to test before post.
I don't know why people are complaining so much about the 'awesome' bar - its really great and if you give it a chance it will make your life A LOT easier.
JimmersJun 27th 2008 4:33PM
Screw it. I'm reinstalling 2.0.
YinnaAug 27th 2008 11:27AM
If you try setting browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0, then decide you still don't like what you see and install Oldbar, remember to set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults back to 12 to get any results from Oldbar.
This was my major issue with Firefox 3 so far. Well, and that my favorite plugins don't work anymore, but I'll give that some time. We shall see.
Thanks!