#Mozilla firefox homepage search how to#

However, in Firefox, for all the places where you can enter a search query, only one setting is valid. There are separate settings for the initial search page, the address bar, and the search box in the toolbar in some browsers. Thank you again to those who tried to help me, and to those who wrote similar questions previously.Every modern browser has default search engine settings.

#Mozilla firefox homepage search how to#

I don't understand it's purpose for being there if what you type there can't be seen there, since it takes up so much room on the page! So if anyone can give me directions on how to make the typing in the Search bar visible to those of us with aged eyes, I would appreciate it very much.

It stays blank, and what I type still goes up to the address bar. So my problem is half-way solved because the annoying drop-down box is gone! I still type in the larger Search box, and no typing appears there. I just kept searching different articles that were linked to various answers. But by clicking around, I finally found a page where I could uncheck all of the boxes that had to do with showing previous searches, so now the drop-down box with previous searches doesn't occur anymore. There was a suggestion about finding 'Menu' at the top of the Firefox page, but it is not labeled in any descriptive manner. Somehow I found a way to turn off the drop down box with the annoying suggestions. To all of the nice people who wrote here and tried to help me:

All of that bright white is terrible for people with cataracts! It's a bad design for people with poor eyesight, and it leads to too much scrolling down to find anything at all. I have to scroll down to find the squares that show the sites that I like to go to, and they are much tinier than they used to be. I am really frustrated with the new 89 format which I finally decided to try just a couple of days ago, and I regret it already:įully 3/4 of my computer screen is all white with the Address bar and the Search bar and the word Firefox with much too much white useless space between them all. Thank you so much for the help that you have provided so far. I need separate pages in order to follow the directions step by step! Once again, if things show up in tabs, the previous page with the directions on it is hidden! But I have no idea where the Menu bar is or what it looks like or how to use it. I found some post that said that I could disable the suggestions on the drop down menu on the Menu bar. So I've read what a lot of people have said. The Address bar is the small one on the left at the top? And the Search Bar is the larger one in the middle? That's what I'm assuming.īy looking though what you posted, I've seen that I'm not the only person who has a problem with this. I've had to guess what the Address Bar is compared to the Search Bar. But because I'm a senior gal of 76 who didn't grow up with the jargon used by computer people, I wasn't sure about the words. I've used Firefox for years, decades even ~~ but this is terrible. It's too small.Īnd the window that comes down with all of the crap on it makes it worse. That small address bar duplicates what I'm typing, but it's hard to see. And when it shifts to the top, the window comes down with all kinds of suggestions and hides the Search bar that I want to type in anyway. And when I start to type in the Search Bar, what I type shifts up to the top, and nothing appears in the Search bar where I'm typing. Only difference ~~ I don't use Google, I use DuckDuckGo. Default should be off for everything that doesn't disable the browser. Turn them all off and let us choose what we wish to use. Remeber that if I want to find something I will go and find it. I do not wish to upset anyone, but you have absolutely nothing worth while to ever suggest for me. Please I only want what I was looking to find. Then I want to hit return and have firefox take me to google showing my search results. Then I want to type something into that search window and have it stay in the search window. When I open firefox I only want to see a clear screen with an empty google search window in the middle. If there is a feature we want, we can look to see if it is available. If we want to see new features we can look for them. It is very distracting to have it automatically move to the address bar.

I like to search from the google search window on my firefox homepage. 'We come to firefox to avoid all the crap the other browsers force on you. Somehow I found this, and it expresses my sentiments exactly! Thank you, Steve!