Disable slash and apostrophe from quick search on Firefox

Question

Firefox's quick search feature is very annoying. Can you please help me disable quick search. When I click the slash or apostrophe, firefox quickly finds what is interfering with my work. Please, help.

Thanks and greetings, Durga Prasad.

Answer 1

Yes, you can disable it (or alternatively reassign) using the extension SearchHotkeys : https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/index-en.html#searchkeys

mozillaZine also has this information: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Find_bar_opens_when_typing_in_textbox

Answer 2

2016: searchhotkeys , firefox xpi. (: config, xpinstall.signatures.required: false) , . , , , .

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edit: , . : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942269

Answer 3

Shortkeys Firefox Finder ('/). , (') (/) , .

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys

This is the addition mentioned by dez93_2000.

Answer 4

The good news: Firefox 63 has finally got the chance to turn it off!

Go to about:config

Find accessibility.typeaheadfind.manualand set it to false.

Found information here: https://techdows.com/2018/06/disable-quick-find-firefox.html

Actual error chain tracking this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418033