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How to Disable Smart Location Bar in Firefox 3

August 22, 2008 by Jason

After days of tweaking my new Firefox 3.0, I found out that one so-called top new features of Firefox is not so pleasing  Smart Location Bar or the Awesome Bar.

The Smart Location Bar is just too “smart” to an extent that it saves my viewed browsing history without my knowledge! The auto complete feature is fine with me but I would still prefer the old Firefox 2.0 way in handling my addresses. I tried to disable this “smart” option via the Option menu but there is no direct way to do it. So, I have to do it the indirect way via about:config or with a help of an extension.

OK, here is how:

Remove only bookmarks results from the list

To to this, you can just use Hide Unvisited extension to get the job done. What Hide Unvisited does is hide bookmarks that you haven’t visited from showing in the Awesome Bar. Read More»