*Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes y...

mikedilger · on May 30, 2019

Here are a few firefox settings to make your URL field behave only as a URL field:

  user_pref("keyword.enabled", false);
  user_pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.filter.javascript", true);

You can put these in a "user.js" file in your profile directory if you don't have one already, or just set them in about:config

zizee · on May 31, 2019

FWIW, I believe most if not all of these settings are also available under preferences | search.

reaperducer · on May 31, 2019

Thank you for perfectly illustrating why Firefox will not find the mainstream acceptance of other browsers.

vurpo · on May 31, 2019

It's not like Chrome has an easy and user-friendly way to do the same thing. Quite the opposite: Chrome has no way at all to do this, while Firefox has a technical way to do it even if it's not obvious to most users that it's possible.

saagarjha · on May 31, 2019

Almost nobody will enable this, though.

crummy · on May 30, 2019

How does the tab-to-search feature in Chrome negatively affect how you use the address bar? Are you entering URLs with tabs in them?

grimgrin · on May 31, 2019

It doesn’t negatively effect it. I like it

I was highlighting what I missed when switching over

grimgrin · on May 30, 2019

Hm, yeah, probably can't help you there

Minimally you can restore the search bar, and now `ctr-k` will focus that bar, while `ctrl-l` will continue focusing the address bar

HOWEVER.. if you type keywords and not a domain in the address bar, it's still gonna search. That's the rub you don't like, I suppose

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-...