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Today I discovered a Firefox feature that allows you to search within particular sites by prepending the search term with an @:

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This seems like an implementation of the similar Chrome behaviour, except that it only applies to the listed sites.

I also now realise that this feature is what was responsible for my occasionally landing on Amazon when I typed a search term too fast into the address bar. For this reason I find these shortcuts to be more trouble than they're worth, especially since there's already another implementation of the feature that allows you to specify any site to be searched.

However, I haven't been able to find any official documentation on this at all, let alone instructions for disabling the feature, and following the instructions here to disable the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts preference doesn't seem to make any difference, even after a restart.

How exactly do I disable this feature?

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How exactly do I disable this feature?

  1. Go to About:Preferences#Search

  2. Remove the entries you don't want from the "One-Click Search Engines" section

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  • It slipped my mind to mention, but I want to be able to do this without removing the search bar's search engines, as it can be useful to explicitly search those sites when I need to. I just don't want that behaviour in my address bar when I need to search, as it can often get in the way.
    – Hashim Aziz
    Commented Sep 26, 2019 at 20:43

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