{"id":684,"date":"2008-04-03T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2008-04-03T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T13:20:41","slug":"firefox-3-disabling-the-awesomebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2008\/04\/03\/firefox-3-disabling-the-awesomebar\/","title":{"rendered":"firefox 3: disabling the awesomebar"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: The browser.urlbar.richResults preference checking was removed in bug 407836<\/a>. Please use the oldbar addon<\/a> if you want to return to Firefox 2’s style of lookups. The rest of this post is kind of moot now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Some people don’t like the “awesomebar” in Firefox3, which is a widget that replaced Firefox 2’s location bar’s auto-complete with a whack of new functionality. Instead of just looking at your history and matching URLs, the awesomebar goes through your history and bookmarks (and the metadata around them) while remembering which sites you visit most. So, instead of just URL matching, it suggests the sites you visit the most that are most relevant to what you’ve started to type in the location bar (and this can be keywords as well as partial URL matching – it’s nifty).<\/p>\n

I confess, I didn’t much care for it at first, but the improvements to its learning behaviour and search routines have made me pretty damn happy. I’m not disabling it, but I’ve read a number of posts where people don’t really like\/want the functionality and the slightly fatter UI elements it brings. So, I say give it a chance and it’ll grow on you, but if you really don’t like it, you can disable it.<\/p>\n

To disable the awesomebar, you’ll need to set the boolean preference of browser.urlbar.richResults<\/a> to “false”. If you’re asking yourself “how do I do that?”, then you need to do a little reading on “about:config<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

So, short and sweet for the skimmers:<\/p>\n

Add the pref browser.urlbar.richResults<\/strong> as a boolean, set it to false<\/strong><\/p>\n

This pref is only checked on startup, so you’ll need to restart Firefox for it to take effect.<\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: The browser.urlbar.richResults preference checking was removed in bug 407836. Please use the oldbar addon if you want to return to Firefox 2’s style of lookups. The rest of this post is kind of moot now \ud83d\ude42 Some people don’t like the “awesomebar” in Firefox3, which is a widget that replaced Firefox 2’s location bar’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}