How to stop predictive bookmark crap in Firefox 3

By Craig | Published: August 26, 2008

If anyone else is annoyed by the new feature on Firefox 3 ‘predictive bookmarks’ and want to turn it off, here is a tutorial snipurl.com/3jvr3

You need to type about:config in the URL bar to start off. There is now way to turn the crap feature off in any of the configuration settings.

This feature is crap, crap, crap! Anyone ever heard of Privacy?

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2 Comments

  1. Malachi
    Posted October 5, 2008 at 7:27 am | Permalink

    Im you mate, that annoyed me completely until I followed the snipurl above and turned the damn thing off

  2. Bob
    Posted October 8, 2008 at 8:44 am | Permalink

    …and me. Thanks for your advice on this. Sorted.

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