Firefox new tab has a box in the middle of the page for you to click in and enter text to search in your default search engine - and it immediately starts typing in the URL bar. IF I WANTED TO USE THE URL BAR I WOULD CLICK THERE.
Throws me off every time.
I can’t recall this wasn’t a thing. Mildly infuriating surely. What’s really infuriating though…
Also, if my single keyword search matches an url in my history, it will happily open the url instead of doing a search. Aargh…
Happens quite a lot so I learned to hit the space-bar after a single keyword search.
That’s a feature, not a bug, and I personally love it.
There’s an about:config setting for that, too. browser.urlbar.autoFill = false
I like the autofill too, just not when I type in the search bar. I like the url and search functions separated in their own bars.
Fair enough, thankfully it’s a pretty easy change to get it how you want!
Type the thing, when autocomplete is shown, press backspace; then search. The backspace will remove the completion
Thank you for the tip.
Glad I’m not only one who space bars after!
Also fixes autofill when you are trying to search a new query that starts with same string
This happens to me often. I don’t learn, unlike you.
Always trying to go too fast.
At least you are literate and a scholar in self deprecation.
Meself, I can push a space-bar quite good after I recall what I was searching for.