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People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong? (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 years ago by ediculous@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Firefox has omnibox and it’s not as easy to turn off as you think. The immediately available settings do some things like add the “search” box back but the “URL” box still functions as the omnibox. Have to play around with about:config and even then I haven’t figured out how to change it turn back time to the before times.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have never had firefox mistake a url for a search, though.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have plenty of times, which is why I went hunting for a way to disable it.

[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FYI, the magic about:config key that you need to set to false is "keyword.enabled". After that Firefox will finally stop using any non-url string as a search query and will instead say say "Hmm. That address doesn’t look right. Please check that the URL is correct and try again."

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

huh. did you remember to feed the fox all the cookies websites give you? that normally keeps her happy.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Begrudgingly yes.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I'm out of ideas. Best to bury your computer in the back yard.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Settings -> Search -> Add search bar in toolbar?

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes that is the setting to turn on the “search bar” but it doesn’t revert omnibar to only URLs.