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URL bar - History - Toggle off

URL bar - History - Toggle off
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:39:11 +010
Is there anyway I can turn (toggle) off the URL history bar. I do not 
want Fx to search my history and offer me a previously used URL when I 
start to type a new URL into the bar.

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Steve

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to 
find easier ways to do something.
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Re: URL bar - History - Toggle off
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:47:33 +010
Steve wrote:
> Is there anyway I can turn (toggle) off the URL history bar. I do not 
> want Fx to search my history and offer me a previously used URL when I 
> start to type a new URL into the bar.
>
You don't indicate which version of Fx you are running but in Fx 3 b5 
(which I am running) you can type about:config in the address bar, then 
in the filter, type browser.urlbar. You will find several entries there 
which you can modify to meet your needs.
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Re: URL bar - History - Toggle off
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:17:11 +010
  Brian wrote thus:
> You don't indicate which version of Fx you are running but in Fx 3 b5 
> (which I am running) you can type about:config in the address bar, then 
> in the filter, type browser.urlbar. You will find several entries there 
> which you can modify to meet your needs.
> Brian

Yep 3.0b5, I applied the fix you supplied in the thread entitled:

  How to delete URLs from Addressbar drop down

and reduced the .maxRichResults to 0 and all seems well now. This 
setting was defaulted to 12 but when I clicked on the drop down arrow on 
the URL bar the list went off the bottom of my screen so I might play 
with it for a little while and see if its a reported bug or just one of 
my extensions mucking things up

Thanks for the tip anyway.

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Steve

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up 
where I needed to be.
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