Don’t think the Firefox 3 awesome bar is awesome? Well there are ways to disable it.
Also know as the Smart Location Bar, it’s primary function is to provide a quick way to get to the sites you frequent. When you type something into the bar a list of sites from your previously viewed pages, tags, and history are viewable in a drop down.
Many people are going to find this feature handy while others are not going to want someone to see their viewed pages.
If you wish to turn off the awesome bar there are a few ways.
1. Download this add-on Hide Unvisited 3 add-on. After installation clear your history and only recently visited sites will appear, similar to Firefox 2.
2. Alternately, download and install this extension Oldbar and it will give you Firefox 2′s drop down behavior using Firefox 3′s algorithm.
3. Type “about:config” (no quotes) into the location bar. Click past the warning message. Scroll down to browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the recommendations to 0 it’s 12 by default.
Or scroll to browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped and change the value from false to true.
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