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When I enter text in the search bar it shows up in the address bar. How do I correct this?

When I enter text in the search bar it shows up in the address bar. How do I correct this?

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Hi Kurt, do you mean the bar in Firefox's built-in Firefox Home / new tab page? When you start typing, the cursor jumps up to the address bar? I haven't verified this for a while, but here are the instructions I've saved for keeping the search in the page:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future. Since I use this one myself, I feel comfortable mentioning it.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false

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