http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/disable-bookmarks-in-the-firefox-3-awesome-bar/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:14:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/disable-bookmarks-in-the-firefox-3-awesome-bar/#comment-389722 Angel Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:38:35 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5036#comment-389722 By setting these browser.urlbar values in the about:config, they can be changed so that they do not show on the awesome bar, but the values are still stored. If you change the browser.urlbar values back, the visited URLs show up again. Best way to clear these values it to remove the file places.sqllite located in your Firefox profile folder. The file is recreated when you launch FF3 again. By setting these browser.urlbar values in the about:config, they can be changed so that they do not show on the awesome bar, but the values are still stored. If you change the browser.urlbar values back, the visited URLs show up again. Best way to clear these values it to remove the file places.sqllite located in your Firefox profile folder. The file is recreated when you launch FF3 again.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/disable-bookmarks-in-the-firefox-3-awesome-bar/#comment-377312 Transcontinental Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:50:18 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5036#comment-377312 Extensions whose only purpose is to switch a value in the about:config seem to me absurd if the user has the minimum skill to access that about:config. If so, the following page delivers I think all the info needed to handle those bookmarks in the "Awesome" bar : http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/prevent-firefox-showing-bookmarks-address-location-bar/3636/ Extensions whose only purpose is to switch a value in the about:config seem to me absurd if the user has the minimum skill to access that about:config. If so, the following page delivers I think all the info needed to handle those bookmarks in the “Awesome” bar :
http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/prevent-firefox-showing-bookmarks-address-location-bar/3636/

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/disable-bookmarks-in-the-firefox-3-awesome-bar/#comment-376930 ManU10 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:29:52 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5036#comment-376930 Another preference is browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0 It goes back to FF2.0 behavior. Another preference is
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0
It goes back to FF2.0 behavior.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/disable-bookmarks-in-the-firefox-3-awesome-bar/#comment-376165 Todd Vierling Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:20:02 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5036#comment-376165 There is already a preference for this. "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped=true" gives you back the <=2.0 behavior. There is already a preference for this. “browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped=true” gives you back the <=2.0 behavior.

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