Firefox 55 - how to remove every single search engine?

Ever since updating to Firefox 55, typing in the address bar brings up an annoying "Search with Google" option at the bottom of the address bar.

When I type something, this happens:

In Options > Search, I have removed as many search engines as possible, under the One-click Search Engines. The last one, be it Google or something else, is not removable.

This is my Options > Search menu:

The Default Search Engine drop-down list only contains Google.

This renders the use of Firefox 55 an extreme annoyance since I have my address bar configured to give me my bookmarks only.

I would like to know how to remove every single search engine from Firefox 55.

ADDENDUM

I am using a sixty-four bit Firefox installation. The path C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser contains not the "searchplugins" folder.

user759381

Posted 2017-08-08T17:32:11.207

Reputation: 63

Possible duplicate of How to remove search providers in late 2014 Firefox?

– Ramhound – 2017-08-08T18:40:00.057

@Ramhound Can't be a duplicate because C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins doesn't exist in Firefox 55 in Windows 10. – testeaxeax – 2017-08-08T19:08:06.650

1https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1076935 Moved to the profile directory as of FF40 – Ramhound – 2017-08-08T20:04:22.043

Can you put a fake search engine in there and it won't return anything? localhost? – Christopher Hostage – 2017-08-08T20:16:58.687

Answers

As far as I know you can't remove all search engines or at least it makes no sense for you because you can fix you problem without removing all search engines.

How to remove the unwanted search entry in the drop-down menu:

Go to about:preferences#search
Uncheck Provide search suggestions
Under One-Click Search Engines remove the blue tick symbol for every search engine.

Now it should look like this:

Open about:config
Click on I accept the risk!
Search for keyword
Change the value of keyword.enabled to false by double-clicking on it

Now it should look like this:

Now your problem should be fixed

Note: Your Firefox will look a bit different than mine because I use Firefox Nightly.
Sorry for that.

testeaxeax

Posted 2017-08-08T17:32:11.207

Reputation: 1 315

1This settings add this line user_pref("browser.search.hiddenOneOffs", "Google,Yahoo,Bing,Amazon.com,DuckDuckGo,Twitter,Wikipedia (en)"); in prefs.js firefox user folder. – Biswapriyo – 2017-08-09T14:57:31.373

To hide "Search for ... with:" box from the bottom of address bar autocomplete list, go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches to false.

joshas

Posted 2017-08-08T17:32:11.207

Reputation: 221

This is the correct trick to get back to Firefox 54 address bar - UI wise, without losing the different search engines (you can still use them if you set some keywords). This should be the accepted answer. – Otiel – 2017-08-18T08:57:05.853

Simply removing the blue tick symbol for every search engine from One-Click Search Engines did the trick for me.

user759952

Posted 2017-08-08T17:32:11.207

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