How to Disable / Adjust URL Suggestions in Addressbar of Mozilla Firefox 3.0

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.

This article was posted in Browsers, Mozilla Firefox.

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10 Comments

Christian

This is a great tutorial, thank you!
Jeet Chowdhury

Thanks Man, I Really Need That To Disable Suggestions.....
AKMA

Neat and effective, Thnx a lot, was searching for such a tweak.
AKMA

Hey Vishal, there seems to a small prb with this(atleast for me), when I type in the **awesome bar** , 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

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?
Anna

HI, thank you so much for this fix!! this is just what I was looking for and it is so easy! thanks again, I have also set value to 0
Silver

Neat.

I still have a problem with it though. I want it to behave like it did in Firefox 2, where it only matched the beginning of the url. Would you happen to know how to do that?

Example.

Typing G would suggest http://www.google.com and http://www.gmail.com etc, but not http://www.whatever.com/Guestbook, or anything else with a G in it.
VG

^^ afaik, not possible.
daniel

great!

I just hate that...

I don't need any suggestions to go where I want.
none

To add the keyword entry like firefox2, see this discussion:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=650888#3349657