Firefox 3 new improved address bar or famously known as Firefox 3 awesome bar is a great improvement over Firefox 2 location bar. As I’ve written on my previous posting, one the 5 reason you should upgrade to Firefox 3, Firefox 3 awesome bar will display a drop down list of your browsing history in url, text (not just in the url of the website but also texts from the title or the page of the website), and Gmail messages.

If by any chance you find Firefox 3 awesome bar a bit cumbersome to use, you can disable firefox 3 awesome bar function entirely. There are a lot of talks on the net about the difficulty of using the firefox 3 awesome, and some claim firefox 3 that firefox 3 awesome bar are only for advance user.

Currently there are two method to disable firefox 3 awesome bar.

Method 1 - Tweak firefox 3 about:config file. Follow steps below to disable firefox 3 awesome bar by editing firefox 3 about:config file.

1. Type about:config in firefox 3 location bar
2. Go to Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
3. Double Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
4. Change the value (default is 12) to 0
5. Close and restart firefox 3.

Method 2 - Install oldbar extension

1. Download oldbar extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
2. Install and restart firefox 3.

Installing oldbar extension for firefox 3 seems to be the easiest way to disable firefox 3 awesome bar. Hope this guide will help those who are not comfortable using the new awesome bar and want to disable firefox awesome bar.

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