When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
sometimes when it does this it freezes the entire user interface
(I'm running icewm, by the way). Ths only way to continue seems to be
to kill iceweasel. This can be easy if I happen to have a shell
window open and I can still give it keyboard focus (killall firefox-bin
works), but if not, the only way out seems to be control-alt-backspace.

Now this is presumably a bug in iceweasel, and may have been fixed in
versions that haven't made it into etch (I'm running an up-to-date etch
on an 32-bit AMD system). But rather than wait forever, is there some
way I can suppress the feature -- I really don't need the proposed
autocompletions. Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
of firefox's maze of configuration menus?

-- hendrik


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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:04:23PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
> sometimes when it does this it freezes the entire user interface
> (I'm running icewm, by the way). Ths only way to continue seems to be
> to kill iceweasel. This can be easy if I happen to have a shell
> window open and I can still give it keyboard focus (killall firefox-bin
> works), but if not, the only way out seems to be control-alt-backspace.

Ctrl-Alt-T should open x-terminal-emulator. You can configure this in
.icewm/keys (use /usr/share/icewm/keys as a template).

> Now this is presumably a bug in iceweasel, and may have been fixed in
> versions that haven't made it into etch (I'm running an up-to-date etch
> on an 32-bit AMD system). But rather than wait forever, is there some
> way I can suppress the feature -- I really don't need the proposed
> autocompletions. Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?

There's a recent thread discussing this feature, maybe you find
something there.

Regards,
Andrei
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:04:23PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
> sometimes when it does this it freezes the entire user interface
> (I'm running icewm, by the way). Ths only way to continue seems to be
> to kill iceweasel. This can be easy if I happen to have a shell
> window open and I can still give it keyboard focus (killall firefox-bin
> works), but if not, the only way out seems to be control-alt-backspace.

Ctrl-Alt-T should open x-terminal-emulator. You can configure this in
.icewm/keys (use /usr/share/icewm/keys as a template).

> Now this is presumably a bug in iceweasel, and may have been fixed in
> versions that haven't made it into etch (I'm running an up-to-date etch
> on an 32-bit AMD system). But rather than wait forever, is there some
> way I can suppress the feature -- I really don't need the proposed
> autocompletions. Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?

There's a recent thread discussing this feature, maybe you find
something there.

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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On 08/17/07 13:04, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
> sometimes when it does this it freezes the entire user interface
> (I'm running icewm, by the way). Ths only way to continue seems to be
> to kill iceweasel. This can be easy if I happen to have a shell
> window open and I can still give it keyboard focus (killall firefox-bin
> works), but if not, the only way out seems to be control-alt-backspace.
>
> Now this is presumably a bug in iceweasel, and may have been fixed in
> versions that haven't made it into etch (I'm running an up-to-date etch
> on an 32-bit AMD system). But rather than wait forever, is there some
> way I can suppress the feature -- I really don't need the proposed
> autocompletions. Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?

An extra click in the address bar makes the auto-completion pick
list go away.

Pressing <Esc> has the same affect.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
> <snip>
> Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?

Go to about:config - "browser.search.suggest.enabled" is boolean, toggle to
false to get rid of this behaviour.

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> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
> <snip>
> Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?

Go to about:config - "browser.search.suggest.enabled" is boolean, toggle to
false to get rid of this behaviour.

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Hi,

Could anyone with this?
Thanks a lot.

Kevin SZ

root@p8nagios-eqix-sjo:~# apt-get install cpp-3.3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cpp-3.3: Depends: gcc-3.3-base (< 1:3.3.6) but 1:3.3.6-15 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@p8nagios-eqix-sjo:~#

Hi,

Could anyone with this?
Thanks a lot.

Kevin SZ

root@p8nagios-eqix-sjo:~# apt-get install cpp-3.3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cpp-3.3: Depends: gcc-3.3-base (< 1:3.3.6) but 1:3.3.6-15 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@p8nagios-eqix-sjo:~#

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:07 +0100, Jamin Davis wrote:

> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
>> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
>> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
>> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
>> <snip>
>> Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
>> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?
>
> Go to about:config - "browser.search.suggest.enabled" is boolean, toggle to
> false to get rid of this behaviour.
>
Did that. When I enter about:config in the URL box it gives me lots
of lines, including

browser.search.suggest.enabled user set boolean false

but it still pops up these menus when I enter stuff in the Google search
field or the URL field.

There must be something else that has to be done.

-- hendrik


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On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:07 +0100, Jamin Davis wrote:

> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
>> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
>> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
>> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
>> <snip>
>> Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
>> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?
>
> Go to about:config - "browser.search.suggest.enabled" is boolean, toggle to
> false to get rid of this behaviour.
>
Did that. When I enter about:config in the URL box it gives me lots
of lines, including

browser.search.suggest.enabled user set boolean false

but it still pops up these menus when I enter stuff in the Google search
field or the URL field.

There must be something else that has to be done.

-- hendrik


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On 08/18/2007 02:03 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:07 +0100, Jamin Davis wrote:
>
>> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
>>> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
>>> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
>>> <snip>
>>> Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
>>> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?
>> Go to about:config - "browser.search.suggest.enabled" is boolean, toggle to
>> false to get rid of this behaviour.
>>
> Did that. When I enter about:config in the URL box it gives me lots
> of lines, including
>
> browser.search.suggest.enabled user set boolean false
>
> but it still pops up these menus when I enter stuff in the Google search
> field or the URL field.
>
> There must be something else that has to be done.

If you're seeing your own /past/ search entries, you can disable
remembering form data in Preferences -> Privacy -> History 'Remember
what I enter in forms and the search bar'

(This is in Firefox 2.0.0.6 from tarball.)

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On 08/18/2007 02:03 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:07 +0100, Jamin Davis wrote:
>
>> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top
>>> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm
>>> going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because
>>> <snip>
>>> Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one
>>> of firefox's maze of configuration menus?
>> Go to about:config - "browser.search.suggest.enabled" is boolean, toggle to
>> false to get rid of this behaviour.
>>
> Did that. When I enter about:config in the URL box it gives me lots
> of lines, including
>
> browser.search.suggest.enabled user set boolean false
>
> but it still pops up these menus when I enter stuff in the Google search
> field or the URL field.
>
> There must be something else that has to be done.

If you're seeing your own /past/ search entries, you can disable
remembering form data in Preferences -> Privacy -> History 'Remember
what I enter in forms and the search bar'

(This is in Firefox 2.0.0.6 from tarball.)

Ralph


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On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:10:18 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:

>
> If you're seeing your own /past/ search entries, you can disable
> remembering form data in Preferences -> Privacy -> History 'Remember
> what I enter in forms and the search bar'
>
> (This is in Firefox 2.0.0.6 from tarball.)

Thanks. That worked. I conclude that the option
browser.search.suggest.enabled gets its suggestions from elsewhere. I
wonder where? perhaps some form of partial googling?

-- hendrik

> Ralph


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On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:10:18 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:

>
> If you're seeing your own /past/ search entries, you can disable
> remembering form data in Preferences -> Privacy -> History 'Remember
> what I enter in forms and the search bar'
>
> (This is in Firefox 2.0.0.6 from tarball.)

Thanks. That worked. I conclude that the option
browser.search.suggest.enabled gets its suggestions from elsewhere. I
wonder where? perhaps some form of partial googling?

-- hendrik

> Ralph


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On 08/19/2007 08:08 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Thanks. That worked. I conclude that the option
> browser.search.suggest.enabled gets its suggestions from elsewhere. I
> wonder where? perhaps some form of partial googling?

Google search first hit on browser.search.suggest.enabled will tell you.

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On 08/19/2007 08:08 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Thanks. That worked. I conclude that the option
> browser.search.suggest.enabled gets its suggestions from elsewhere. I
> wonder where? perhaps some form of partial googling?

Google search first hit on browser.search.suggest.enabled will tell you.

Ralph


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