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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 14 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Firefox has omnibox and it’s not as easy to turn off as you think. The immediately available settings do some things like add the “search” box back but the “URL” box still functions as the omnibox. Have to play around with about:config and even then I haven’t figured out how to change it turn back time to the before times.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I have never had firefox mistake a url for a search, though.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I have plenty of times, which is why I went hunting for a way to disable it.

[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FYI, the magic about:config key that you need to set to false is "keyword.enabled". After that Firefox will finally stop using any non-url string as a search query and will instead say say "Hmm. That address doesn’t look right. Please check that the URL is correct and try again."

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago
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