New blue bar has appeared in Firefox

I'm on Firefox Quantum 65.0 (64-bit), and there must have been an update because whenever I try to use the url box, an annoying bright blue bar appears.
I've unchecked almost everything in Options and set a ton of stuff to false in about:config - but the dazzling bar is still there.

even about:config

How to get rid ?

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Farvatten said:

Unable to turn off search suggestions 'drop down' after upgrade to Firefox 65.....
....
This previously distracting search drop down appeared after the upgrade to v.65 and was something I'd been able to remove before by setting the about:config value "browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled' to false. However this value is now purposely ignored in v65 due to sync issues with mobile preferences.

More details here: Unable to turn off search suggestions after upgrade to Firefox 65 | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

The workaround is to add this to a userChrome.css file

#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult {

display: none!important;

}

Found this yesterday.

That fixed it - many thanks.

badcrc said:

That fixed it - many thanks.

Glad it worked. I found it very annoying as well.

And thanks @badcrc for starting this thread. Now Google Searches for 'New Blue Bar has appeared Firefox' returns this most recent fix instead of all these historical non-solutions to this distracting drop-down going back 8 years that no longer work and had us running in circles.

While this is an old thread that had been solved, it remains a persistently reoccurring issue with each major release of Firefox.

More recent discussions and version fixes can be found here:

Firefox - search with google irritation


The current best fix for FF70 is to add this to your userChrome.css file:

#urlbar-results {
display: none !important;
}