Is it possible to disable Firefox automatically adding ".com" to one word search terms?
Normally when typing something to the URL bar and not adding a dot, the browser defaults to searching that query on the default search engine. However, on newer versions of FireFox, both on desktop and mobile, when typing any one word, it automatically adds ".com" and tries to connect to that site.
This is extremely annoying and even potentially dangerous if I just wanted to search up whether a site is malicious but it automatically connects to that site instead. Is there a way to disable this?
Krejt Përgjigjet (4)
Hi P
I should be able to help with this.
Open Firefox for Android and select the menu icon.
Select Settings and Search.
At the bottom of the screen, deselect the Show search suggestions option.
I hope this helps.
Already disabled. It's not a search suggestion, it doesn't show the .com or any other suggestion in the URL bar before I submit the query.
Ok, yes I see what you mean.
I do not think it is possible to do this at present, but this is something that may be included in a future update.
On desktop, you can turn off the in-URL-bar autofill feature as follows:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.urlbar.autoFill preference to switch the value from true to false