How to disable address bar search option in Firefox

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I couldn't access subfolders in my wamp www directory through Firefox 12.0 a few days ago by typing this in the address bar:

http://localhost/folder/subfolder

Firefox 12.0 starts Google search when I press ENTER, and I tried a workaround to disable address bar search by doing this:

about:config -> keyword.URL ; set the string as none. 

Now I can access the subfolders. I know it is not the proper way to do it, but I'd like to know if somebody has a better idea.

jathin

Posted 2012-06-10T16:22:49.347

Reputation: 243

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possible duplicate of How can I disable searching and domain guessing from the Firefox Address Bar, while keeping other features?

– Cristian Ciupitu – 2015-08-28T19:31:58.100

Answers

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You should go to keyword.enabled. Then double-click on it to set its value to false.

Mehper C. Palavuzlar

Posted 2012-06-10T16:22:49.347

Reputation: 51 093

2And additionally probably set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false, which was what I needed for my Firefox 51. – amn – 2017-02-14T14:21:56.813