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Disable search and autocomplete on url bar of Firefox

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To disable search on url bar of Firefox, first re-enable the double search bar:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Go to Search settings
  3. On Search Bar, select the 2 bar option

Now disable the search on the url bar:

  1. Visit on the main bar about:config
  2. Accept to continue
  3. Search “keyword”
  4. Change the status from true to false (double click on it)

Now if you try to type a keyword, you will be redirected to the keyword.com website, e.g. boh will redirect to boh.com.

Data aren’t sent anymore to other search engines except for autocompletes, but you can disable it following next steps.

Disable search autocomplete on urlbar

  1. Go to about:config
  2. Search browser.urlbar.suggest.searches
  3. Set value from true to false (double click on it)

Now if you type a search on the url bar, the search will be performed on the history alone, but if you use the search bar autocomplete will works normally.

Reasons

The default configuration of Firefox can cause a search to be performed when an url is wrong using the main bar, or auto-suggestion to be performed silently.

At the end of this howto, Firefox will be back to a status where the user take back more control of searches, reducing disclosed data to external services.

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Character substitution on Jquery

/ chirale / 3 Comments

Here an easy way to search and replace each occurrence a group of characters (in this case underscore and minus) with another (in this case a space) on a specified element (in this case each A), using Jquery javascript library.

$("a").each(function() {
   $(this).html($(this).html().replace(/[_-]/g," "));
});

The first argument passed on replace is a regex, if you just pass a single character (like “_” or “-“) only first occurrence for each element.

Real world usage: I use this onto a long page, where a table has long filenames with underscore and minus in place of spaces. This trick allows in my case to show tables nicely, without caring on a mass substitution via server side scripting.

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