How to disable search from location bar?

[pagan]

I looked through user.js but only found how to stop "i'm feeling lucky", not how to stop searching from location box altogether.

A truly unfortunate conincidence is using FB as a web app development tool, forgetting to start the local web server, then getting redirected based on http://localhost to a very slimy outfit at localhost.net.au.

[formnull]

I looked through user.js but only found how to stop "i'm feeling lucky", not how to stop searching from location box altogether.

A truly unfortunate conincidence is using FB as a web app development tool, forgetting to start the local web server, then getting redirected based on http://localhost to a very slimy outfit at localhost.net.au.

I agree, that is so obnoxious! I just turned it off the other day, it's called "keyword.enabled".

Type "about:config" in your URL bar, filter for "keyword", set keyword.enabled to false.

[alanjstr]

You could make sure that your computer knows that localhost is 127.0.0.1
You could go into about:config and just remove the URLbar search URL completely. I don't know what it would do, but probably not go anywhere.

[pagan]

I looked through user.js but only found how to stop "i'm feeling lucky", not how to stop searching from location box altogether.

A truly unfortunate conincidence is using FB as a web app development tool, forgetting to start the local web server, then getting redirected based on http://localhost to a very slimy outfit at localhost.net.au.

I agree, that is so obnoxious! I just turned it off the other day, it's called "keyword.enabled".

Type "about:config" in your URL bar, filter for "keyword", set keyword.enabled to false.

Thanks. That worked perfectly. It correctly responds with an alert saying "the connection was refused". Simply changing the keyword.URL does stop the "i'm feeling lucky" but doesn't give the alert message.

I don't know where the about:config feature is mentioned anywhere in Tools > Options or any other menu item.

Roger

[Guest]

I looked through user.js but only found how to stop "i'm feeling lucky", not how to stop searching from location box altogether.

A truly unfortunate conincidence is using FB as a web app development tool, forgetting to start the local web server, then getting redirected based on http://localhost to a very slimy outfit at localhost.net.au.

I agree, that is so obnoxious! I just turned it off the other day, it's called "keyword.enabled".

Type "about:config" in your URL bar, filter for "keyword", set keyword.enabled to false.

Thanks. That worked perfectly. It correctly responds with an alert saying "the connection was refused". Simply changing the keyword.URL does stop the "i'm feeling lucky" but doesn't give the alert message.

I don't know where the about:config feature is mentioned anywhere in Tools > Options or any other menu item.

Roger

Glad it worked for you.

about:config is an advanced feature, like editing the user.js
It's not really intended for end-users, which is why it isn't documented in the end-user docs..

The idea is to expose as many of these options as is reasonable through the Options menu.