How to turn off Firefox 3’s “awesome bar”
In Firefox 3, the Location Bar received a number of improvements. Among those improvements was the move to a XUL richlistbox widget for the auto-complete dropdown. This allowed styled URL/title information, favicons, and highlighted match information. This preference determines how many entries should appear (at most) in the dropdown. Many find Firefox 3’s “awesome bar” quite annoying. Luckily this is easy to disable.
First, in the address bar type: “about:config” (without the quotes).
In the about:config search bar type: Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
The default value is set to 12. If you set this interger to 0, nothing will display in the “awesome bar” any longer.
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