Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Comes with lots of great improvements and new features. One of the new feature is redesigned addressbar aka Awesomebar.
The new addressbar shows a drop-down list of matching URLs as soon as you type something in addressbar. By default it shows 12 suggestions in drop-down list:
Some ppl might feel uncomfortable with this new feature and want to disable it. Some might want to increase / decrease the no. of suggestions in drop-down list.
So here is a simple and small tutorial for adjusting no. of suggestions in addressbar or to completly disable this new feature:
1. Open firefox and type about:config in the addressbar and press Enter. It’ll confirm, click on I’ll be careful, I promise! button.
2. Now type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter box. It’ll show a single entry in the results window.
3. Now double-click on this entry or right-click on it and select “Modify“. It’ll open new dialog box asking to enter your desired integer.
4. You can enter any non-negative integer according to your requirement. We have used 6.
5. That’s it. Now Firefox will show your desired no. of URL suggestions in addressbar next time you’ll type something.
NOTE: To disable suggestions completely, set the value to 0.
Related Articles:
Recommended Articles:
- Is Your System Infected with a Virus / Spyware / Adware / Trojan?
- Collection of Some Useful Tricks and Extensions for New Mozilla Firefox 3.0
- All About Resource Hacker in a brief Tutorial
- Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows Vista Super Fast
- Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows XP Super Fast
- Transform Windows XP in Windows Vista without Customization pack
- All Kinds of Restrictions for Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
- Frequently Asked Problems with Solutions
- Put Your Favorite Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Firewall Apps to the Test
- How to Reset / Recover Forgotten Windows Administrator Password?
- How to Reset / Remove / Bypass a BIOS or CMOS Password?
Christian said:
This is a great tutorial, thank you!
Jeet Chowdhury said:
Thanks Man, I Really Need That To Disable Suggestions…..
AKMA said:
Neat and effective, Thnx a lot, was searching for such a tweak.
AKMA said:
Hey Vishal, there seems to a small prb with this(atleast for me), when I type in the **awesome bar** :wink:, nothing shows up as u said, but when i press ‘Backspace’ to edit it, suggestions start coming up.. any idea y?
I’ve set the value to ‘0′
Fizz said:
AKMA is 100% correct, this is extremely useful information and is exactly what I was looking for. However if you hit backspace it still does pull up suggestions. Any ideas how to stop that from happening as well?