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Fixing Firefox 3’s Annoying Autocomplete

August 18, 2008 by Michele Neylon 1 Comment

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When I was playing around with Firefox 3 several months ago one of the biggest annoyances for me was the “autocomplete”.

As you type a URL Firefox suggests links from your browser history.

While that might be useful the way they’ve implemented it is incredibly obtrusive and, therefore, really really annoying.

As I mentioned previously I couldn’t upgrade to Firefox 3 as my main browser for a number of silly reasons. Since then those issues have been resolved, so I’ve started using FF3 on my home desktop.

So what about the annoying auto-complete?

Well it’s easy enough to disable if you know how.

Luckily somebody out there did!

Like so many Firefox settings it can be configured via the advanced configuration menu, which now comes with a health warning!

In your location (address) bar simply type “about:config” (no quotes).
The variable / setting you need to change is found under:

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

I’ve set mine to “1”, as I really don’t need more. I can always change it later if I really want to.

Restart Firefox and finally sanity is restored!

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  1. reefer says

    October 16, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    An easier way to solve this problem is:
    Open Firefox
    Up top, go to TOOLS
    Left click on TOOLS
    Go down to OPTIONS
    Left click on OPTIONS
    Left click on GENERAL at top left
    See Home Page: ??
    Enter this: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0
    You will no longer be bothered by their second guessing.
    And..you can change it back to whatever you want.
    Plus you don’t have to fool around with your “configuration”.
    As the warning says…it’s best to STAY AWAY FROM THESE SETTINGS.

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