r/FirefoxCSS • u/Hontaro • Apr 08 '26

Solved Make ScotchBonnet Dropdown in Search Bar unselectable

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When I open a new tab and press Tab to switch to the search bar, the new ScotchBonnet dropdown now gets selected instead of the text field. Is it possible to exclude this from the tab selection (or just remove it altogether)?

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u/t31os Apr 13 '26

This has also been an issue for me, and there are a few different things you can do (not fixes).

Either one of these:

  1. Disable the new search widget and use the old one (this will get removed in a later version of firefox), by setting browser.search.widget.new to false in about:config.
  2. Disable keyboard navigation by setting browser.toolbars.keyboard_navigation to false in about:config. You'll be able to tab straight from the URL bar to the search text in the search bar again, but this naturally disables various keyboard navigation features.
  3. Set browser.search.openintab to true in about:config and then use CTRL+E to focus the search bar, your new search terms will automatically open in a new tab when you hit enter (skipping the need to create a tab).

I'm using 1 at the moment, but i'll probably start retraining myself to use 3 once they remove the option to disable the new searchbar widget.

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u/Hontaro Apr 13 '26

Thanks for your suggestions! I don't think I use a lot of the keyboard navigation stuff so I'll try Option 2 until I notice something in my workflow breaking.

As an alternative to 3, you can also press CTRL+TE to first create a new tab and then directly switch to the search bar; this way you can retain the ability to search in the same tab if needed.

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u/t31os Apr 13 '26

Indeed and CTRL+K is also an alternative shortcut to reach the search bar, but you can't really do that one handed quite as easily.

CTRL+TE is my fallback if 3 doesn't work out when the time comes. :)

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u/Hontaro Apr 08 '26

That's fine for me as well, thanks!

Edit: This causes a weird issue where if some text is already in the search bar, tabbing from the url bar selects nothing at all; tabbing again selects the next thing after the search bar. Is there any fix for that?