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A Problem with Firefox Quantum

Started by"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
First post2018-03-30 18:40 +0200
Last post2018-03-31 04:40 +0200
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  A Problem with Firefox Quantum "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-03-30 18:40 +0200
    Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-30 19:10 +0200
    Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-30 19:10 +0200
      Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-03-30 20:30 +0200
        Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-30 22:00 +0200
          Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-31 10:10 +0200
            Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-31 10:40 +0200
          Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-04-01 10:20 +0200
            Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-04-01 13:30 +0200
              Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-04-01 14:30 +0200
                Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-04-01 15:20 +0200
              Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-04-01 19:30 +0200
        Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-03-31 04:40 +0200

#194323 — A Problem with Firefox Quantum

From"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Date2018-03-30 18:40 +0200
SubjectA Problem with Firefox Quantum
Message-ID<vz5ei-Yv-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
I am running Debian Stretch on my Linux platform and have a rather 
annoying problem.

I have upgraded Firefox to Firefox Quantum, currently v-59.0.2 
(64-bit).  Unasked for by me every time that I run a search I get 6 
search recommendations.

Google has come up with how to remove the pocket, how to remove search 
engines, how to remove . . . . but the 'Search Recommendations' persist.

Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the blasted thing?  No, I 
really don't want to switch browsers.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Consultant
www.molecular-modeling.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype: smolnar1

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#194324

Fromsongbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Date2018-03-30 19:10 +0200
Message-ID<vz5Hj-1ol-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194323
Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I am running Debian Stretch on my Linux platform and have a rather 
> annoying problem.
>
> I have upgraded Firefox to Firefox Quantum, currently v-59.0.2 
> (64-bit).  Unasked for by me every time that I run a search I get 6 
> search recommendations.
>
> Google has come up with how to remove the pocket, how to remove search 
> engines, how to remove . . . . but the 'Search Recommendations' persist.
>
> Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the blasted thing?  No, I 
> really don't want to switch browsers.
>
> Thanks in advance.

  it is right in Search preferences, click box for
provide search suggestions.


  songbird

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#194325

FromCurt <curty@free.fr>
Date2018-03-30 19:10 +0200
Message-ID<vz5Hk-1ol-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194323
On 2018-03-30, Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I am running Debian Stretch on my Linux platform and have a rather 
> annoying problem.
>
> I have upgraded Firefox to Firefox Quantum, currently v-59.0.2 
> (64-bit).  Unasked for by me every time that I run a search I get 6 
> search recommendations.
>
> Google has come up with how to remove the pocket, how to remove search 
> engines, how to remove . . . . but the 'Search Recommendations' persist.
>
> Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the blasted thing?  No, I 
> really don't want to switch browsers.

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

Which says:

  un-check() the Provide search suggestions box in the Search section
  of Firefox's preferences...

Or are you referring to something else entirely?

> Thanks in advance.
>


-- 
We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not
wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience,
whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not,
like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it,
is it not. --Samuel Beckett

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#194331

From"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Date2018-03-30 20:30 +0200
Message-ID<vz6WJ-25j-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194325
On 03/30/2018 01:01 PM, Curt wrote:
> On 2018-03-30, Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I am running Debian Stretch on my Linux platform and have a rather
>> annoying problem.
>>
>> I have upgraded Firefox to Firefox Quantum, currently v-59.0.2
>> (64-bit).  Unasked for by me every time that I run a search I get 6
>> search recommendations.
>>
>> Google has come up with how to remove the pocket, how to remove search
>> engines, how to remove . . . . but the 'Search Recommendations' persist.
>>
>> Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the blasted thing?  No, I
>> really don't want to switch browsers.
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-suggestions-firefox
>
> Which says:
>
>    un-check() the Provide search suggestions box in the Search section
>    of Firefox's preferences...
>
> Or are you referring to something else entirely?
>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
Thanks for the suggestions, so far.  Unfortunately, that's not the 
problem.  Checked or not checked the 'Search Recommendations' are still 
there.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Consultant
www.molecular-modeling.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype: smolnar1

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#194337

FromCurt <curty@free.fr>
Date2018-03-30 22:00 +0200
Message-ID<vz8lR-2Zx-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194331
On 2018-03-30, Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>> Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the blasted thing?  No, I
>>> really don't want to switch browsers.
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-suggestions-firefox
>>
>> Which says:
>>
>>    un-check() the Provide search suggestions box in the Search section
>>    of Firefox's preferences...
>>
>> Or are you referring to something else entirely?
>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
> Thanks for the suggestions, so far.  Unfortunately, that's not the 
> problem.  Checked or not checked the 'Search Recommendations' are still 
> there.
>

Here's a solution in search of a problem:

Try:

 about:config

 browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete

Change boolean value to false.

Restart browser.

-- 
The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of
aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious
intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality
being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with
our sorrow.  --Samuel Beckett

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#194357

FromCurt <curty@free.fr>
Date2018-03-31 10:10 +0200
Message-ID<vzjKi-2BB-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194337
On 2018-03-30, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Here's a solution in search of a problem:
>
> Try:
>
>  about:config
>
>  browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
>
> Change boolean value to false.
>
> Restart browser.
>

This preference has been removed apparently (in their perpetual search
to bugger the user up the wazoo with unwanted "features" you need more 
than one PhD to turn off).

Maybe something in this reddit thread can be of use:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/64mum3/how_can_i_make_firefox_stop_showing_me_these/


-- 
The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of
aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious
intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality
being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with
our sorrow.  --Samuel Beckett

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#194358

From<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date2018-03-31 10:40 +0200
Message-ID<vzkdk-2Pf-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194357
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 08:06:11AM +0000, Curt wrote:

[...]

> This preference has been removed apparently (in their perpetual search
> to bugger the user up the wazoo with unwanted "features" you need more 
> than one PhD to turn off).

Sigh. Choice is confusing. Users are idiots.

Were it not Mozilla, I wouldn't care. Sad.

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#194368

FromPierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>
Date2018-04-01 10:20 +0200
Message-ID<vzGnv-jB-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194337
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote:

> Try:
>
> about:config
>
> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
>
> Change boolean value to false.
>
> Restart browser.

   Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox versions,
   the field name is

     browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled

    and I don't need to restart the browser

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#194369

From"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Date2018-04-01 13:30 +0200
Message-ID<vzJln-2iD-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194368
On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote:
>
>> Try:
>>
>> about:config
>>
>> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
>>
>> Change boolean value to false.
>>
>> Restart browser.
>
>   Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox 
> versions,
>   the field name is
>
>     browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled
>
>    and I don't need to restart the browser
>
>
Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing 
browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Consultant
www.molecular-modeling.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype: smolnar1

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#194370

FromPierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>
Date2018-04-01 14:30 +0200
Message-ID<vzKhs-2XF-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194369
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

> Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled 
> made no difference.

  rather strange. I made an other test just now, and it works perfectly,
  and immediatly (i.e without restarting firefox)
  PS: and it's not an April fool!

best regards,
-- 
Pierre Frenkiel

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#194372

From"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Date2018-04-01 15:20 +0200
Message-ID<vzL3P-3zK-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194370
On 04/01/2018 08:24 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
>> Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing 
>> browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference.
>
>  rather strange. I made an other test just now, and it works perfectly,
>  and immediatly (i.e without restarting firefox)
>  PS: and it's not an April fool!
>
> best regards,
I'm rapidly coming to the solution that my system is a bit to the funky 
side.  I guess I'll just live with it for the time being.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Consultant
www.molecular-modeling.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype: smolnar1

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#194381

FromPatrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com>
Date2018-04-01 19:30 +0200
Message-ID<vzOXL-6u4-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194369
On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:20:36 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar"
<s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 
> On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote:
> >
> >> Try:
> >>
> >> about:config
> >>
> >> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
> >>
> >> Change boolean value to false.
> >>
> >> Restart browser.
> >
> >   Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox 
> > versions,
> >   the field name is
> >
> >     browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled
> >
> >    and I don't need to restart the browser
> >
> >
> Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing 
> browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference.

Changing to "flase" worked on my Openbox window manager-menu-lxpanel
only version of Wheezy Firefox 59.0.2. Ditto in Stretch similarly
configured running in VirtualBox.  Both using DuckDuckGo.  Search in
both in URL bar didn't work at all if I used Google search engine.

B

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#194352

FromBen Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Date2018-03-31 04:40 +0200
Message-ID<vzeAV-7nE-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#194331

On 31/03/18 07:26, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On 03/30/2018 01:01 PM, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-03-30, Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> I have upgraded Firefox to Firefox Quantum, currently v-59.0.2
>>> (64-bit).  Unasked for by me every time that I run a search I get 6
>>> search recommendations.
[...]
>>    un-check() the Provide search suggestions box in the Search section
>>    of Firefox's preferences...
[...]
> Thanks for the suggestions, so far.  Unfortunately, that's not the 
> problem.  Checked or not checked the 'Search Recommendations' are still 
> there.

You can also remove unwanted entries under "One-Click Search Engines".

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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