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Ironically it's kind of a shame, but I feel that the success of Firebug ended up hurting Firefox in the long run. Firebug was really a pioneer in the devtools, but for so long Firefox just allowed it to be the defacto Dev tools that google ended up lapping them. And they we made to play catch up Once developers started jumping, they convinced slowly got their relatives or non techs friends to switch.
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If you have that in your history, you can highlight that entry in the search results (e.g. using the up/down arrow keys after typing "weather") then press Shift and Delete to delete it from the history. If you don't want search results, you can go to the options/preferences, select search, and uncheck the "Provide search suggestions" option.
This key combo doesn't work
To manage the top sites (which Firefox 78 displays on address bar click or down arrow if enabled in the preferences [1]), you need to: 1) add the top sites on the home page, 2) hover over the page you want to remove, 3) click the "..." button in the top right ("Open Menu"), 4) click "unpin" if you don't want it to be kept there, but stil calculated in the ranking, 5) click "dismiss" if you don't want it displayed.
[1] This is a change in Firefox 78, as when pressing the down arrow key Firefox 77 displayed what Firefox 78 displays when pressing the space bar.
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try searching for the item in your History sidebar, then right-click -> Forget about this site.
I've done this and the OPs suggestion, and the incorrect autocomplete persists. In my case, I went to a random person's blog that starts with the same two letters as a website I use frequently. I've given that random person's blog thousands of hits over the last year...
I don't know of an easier way to do this.
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Then disable it. Judging from comments in this post, there seem to be numerous people who like it. And given Mozilla owns Pocket and a small amount of revenue is coming from it, what is wrong with pushing it?
Because at the same time they've struggled to move past the Gecko engine and create a product that can reasonable keep up with Google Chrome. It was the wrong choice made at the worst time, wasting time and resources.
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I am always very confused by discussions about this bar. For me, when I press ctrl-L, the bar gets slightly bigger borders and the dropdown expands, and that's all that happens. I don't get a font size change or anything. Is my experience not typical? Does anyone know why I don't get the new bar if not? I'm on 78.
I have font change on Win10, v77.0.1 latest. When focused URL text font is enlarged and if you were targeting specific symbol it will be shifted to side by several places. PS: here is a proof - https://imgur.com/a/AYi99Ht
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Firefox's Tracking Protection is a fraud and has a whitelist of domains to allow, which include Google and Facebook properties despite them being the biggest threats to privacy.
Which would break Facebook and Google login for a massive portion of the web (since those buttons are usually embeds). If you want to block them yourself, fine, but it's not the browser maker's job to make that decision for the user.
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Because at the same time they've struggled to move past the Gecko engine and create a product that can reasonable keep up with Google Chrome. It was the wrong choice made at the worst time, wasting time and resources.
Are you saying that the people working on the engine and the ones working on Pocket are the same? Hint: Probably not.
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I've seen numerous people discuss this, so I can only presume that there is some itch here, but I'm not getting it. Hasn't the location bar been non-native since pretty much forever, since it has to display icons and colors and all sorts of other stuff that I think most native drop down widgets just won't? As for obscuring other parts of the UI … such as? (That it wasn't since the dawn of time; I mean, it drops down…
> As for obscuring other parts of the UI … such as? Bookmarks toolbar, for one. Open a new blank tab, the URLbar has focus by default and is now partially obscuring the bookmarks right at the moment you're most likely to use them.
I'll admit, I did not think of the bookmarks bar. (I don't use it, myself.) Thanks, too, for responding.
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Been using Firefox daily as my development browser for the last 6 months. Started as an experiment, but stayed because I liked it. The only thing I noticed is that sometimes Chrome's errors in the console are slightly better. I prefer Firefox's HTML/CSS panels, and the CSS Grid/Flex support is generally better. As anything, this comment is a point-of-time comment, they are both iterating rapidly, and when one adds so…
if you use nightly too you get some extra features that might even be better than chrome's.