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How to turn off Firefox address bar auto-selection on focus

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Mar 15, 20262915 views
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If you're typing in the Firefox address bar and alt-tab to a different window, then back, the entire text in the address bar is highlighted. This is extremely annoying to me. Is there a way to turn this behavior off? What I'd like to see is whatever I had when I left the application (e.g. either a …

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Modern answer: My Linux systems no longer highight the Awesome bar contents when returning from Alt-Tab, so (for me) there's no need for this tweak of a config parameter that no longer exists. For everyone else, apparently this will not be fixed: ht…

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