Firefox quantum, disable search in address field

Question

I've been looking everywhere but cannot find a way to disable the search from the Address field in the Firefox Quantom.

No problem adding a search bar, but that doesn't negate the search from the address bar.

I'm currently on 57.0.3.

Answer 1

You should be able to disable search in the address bar (aka awesomebar) by:

• going to about:config;
• searching for the browser.urlbar.suggest.searches preference;
• setting it to false.

You may notice that there are other browser.urlbar.suggest.* preferences there. You can tweak them to personalize your urlbar suggestion experience.

Update: to disable searching when typing an address (e.g. the URI fails to resolve and it tries to use a search engine) also disable keyword.enabled in the preferences. To prevent the bar from guessing/fixing the typed URI (e.g. typing fred is changed to fred.com) there's another pref, browser.fixup.alternate.enabled. It needs to be set to false to disable URI fixup.