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Position of the search box in Firefox

gtx4 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 01:28:43 GMT

Why can't the search box remain centered , as in Chrome, instead of popping up to the top of the screen once you type in something ? It's a visual nuisance and Firefox provides no alternative settings. In fact, this annoying flaw used to be the case with Google in the past, but they corrected it. For now I'm turning to Firefox because of the speed enhancement over Google Chrome.

Re: Position of the search box in Firefox

jscher2000 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:36:40 GMT

There is a hidden setting for this. The hard part is discovering its bizarre name. Here's how to switch it:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. Please keep in mind that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true (move the cursor to the address bar) to false (keep the cursor in the search bar in the page)

Success?

Re: Position of the search box in Firefox

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Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true (move the cursor to the address bar) to false (keep the cursor in the search bar in the page. For more details visit Inat Box

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Re: Position of the search box in Firefox

Agentvirtuel — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:57:53 GMT

Hello

For illustration, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/address-bar-updates-now-live-in-firefox-nightly/m-p/97642/highlight/true#M38055

Under Firefox 147, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar, the preference is available in about:config and works.

Since Firefox 148, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar, the preference has been removed.

For information, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1999334