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Re: Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3

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Post by asjo » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC

vetinari wrote: post #29

sp332 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

go to about:config, set places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus and places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus to 0. Then use private browsing when you visit those "secret" links.

or go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.richResults to false.

Is that a preference that I need to add, or did you mean browser.urlbar.maxRichResults?

No, setting maxRichResults to 0 totally breaks the bar (no completion at all when typing.)

Re: Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3

#32

Post by vetinari » Mon, Aug 31, 2009, 9:14 AM UTC

asjo wrote: post #31

vetinari wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.richResults to false.

Is that a preference that I need to add, or did you mean browser.urlbar.maxRichResults? No, setting maxRichResults to 0 totally breaks the bar (no completion at all when typing.)

No, maxRichResults and richResults are separate preferences. See also:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults

and

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

Re: Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3

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Post by asjo » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 4:58 PM UTC

vetinari wrote: post #32

asjo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a preference that I need to add, or did you mean browser.urlbar.maxRichResults? No, setting maxRichResults to 0 totally breaks the bar (no completion at all when typing.)

No, maxRichResults and richResults are separate preferences. See also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

Thanks for the links and clarification.

The page on browser.urlbar.richResults says: "Has an effect in * Mozilla Firefox (nightly builds from 2007-11-29 to 2007-12-17)"

So I guess you need to do what it says under "Background" to get rid of the awesome bar: "If you’d like to disable the improved Location Bar dropdown in a version of Firefox without this preference, try the oldbar extension."