Answer by Jared Harley for firefox URL autocomplete: how to suppress...
You may also want to "vacuum" the database Firefox uses to store your history - believe it or not, it greatly improves the speed of the awesome bar. There are two ways to do this - manually, or through...
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Besides the 'search.timeout' configuration (in Sean's answer), a few more suggestions here and here might make your experience better. You may want to look at, 'browser.urlbar.default.behavior'...
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I don't see a setting to set the minimum characters required to launch a search, but you can try increasing the searchTimeout setting to, say, 700 (ms) from the default of 100. This will give you a...
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I'm not sure how to configure autocomplete in the Firefox 3 AwesomeBar. However, I find that the oldbar extension works great. It restores the old the Location Bar functionality of Firefox 2 to Firefox 3
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Firefox's "awesomebar" goes into autocomplete mode as soon as you type in 1 character. That seems silly to me, and it hangs for a few seconds when I first start the program up, as it does its thinking...
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