Firefox is pissing me off. What should I replace it with?

Vivaldi. If you need customisation on your browser, then it is probably the only option with a decent enough rendering engine. Chromium-based, but you can do quite many things with it.

Pale Moon could be considered, but I always felt it awkward and clumsy to use. Don't know why.

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Tor browser

I would say IE, after 5 minutes you'll start re-loving Firefox again.

Also, if privacy is your concern you should take a look at : Prism Break and Privacy Tools

Those are very informative, imo.

I use Torch browser

I have been using srware iron for a while and it works great, it's like you have chrome but without google logging everything you do.

http://www.srware.net/en/software.php

I like Cyberfox. They keep up with Firefox but try to keep it customizable as much as possible.
In their options you have all the Firefox options plus a huge "customize Cyberfox" area.

Edit: on a side note, why not use several browsers? ^^ I always have both Cyberfox and Vivaldi running, and quite often Tor Browser. Plus a light installation of Firefox that I only use for work stuff.

Google Chrome or Vivaldi.

You can give Avant Browser a shot, it may be what your looking for.

Cheers!

If Google can't be trusted, then Chromium. You can compile from source if you want to. I use it myself and it's very decent.

Other options include Vivaldi.

selfmade browser is always the best way, if not possible use chrome or opera or just seach the google for it.

i think that you can find something bad on every browser....but i am also mad at firefox, but about performance and slow develop

I got tired of something that didn't work any longer in Firefox a long while back, and switched to Chrome. That however, while great for a long while, has recently also become a little of an uphill battle. They keep changing things that I don't like (like the looks of it), but really they're all pretty much the same. The thing I like about Firefox/chrome is most extensions being made for them, and at least with chrome it's a tiny bit more convenient to have google accounts tied to your browser etc.

However, if chrome was to disappear tomorrow, I wouldn't really hesitate to just switch back to Firefox I guess.

Maybe just go to preferences -> Search tab -> Deselect the option "Show search suggestions in location bar results"

In my case it only whatever i have selected in prefenreces->privacy->Location Bar

No real need to go all the way to about:config

Internet Explorer, i still use it. :x

Perhaps Chromium (instead of Google Chrome)?

(Chromium is Google Chrome, without the proprietary stuff, which is what can spy on you, without you knowing.)

Also, you can use Firefox ESR (stands for Extended Support Release), so you can have security updates for about a year, so you can only deal with whatever configuration it is that bothers you once per year.

Hi,

I still use Firefox so I don't have any other browser suggestions. I can't find any other that is not a one-man show, which I trust to find and correct security problems in an open and timely fashion, which I entrust with my privacy, and which supports all of the customization of FF extensions that I'm used to. Chromium is way faster, especially on pages with large tables, but I'm used to the way I have things set up in Firefox. I have years worth of customizations and preference data in noscript/policeman/ublock/greasemonkey etc. that I would hate to lose.

But I did search about your urlbar problem. It looks like the urlbar preferences were re-done and the browser.urlbar.default.behavior option was completely removed as of Firefox 36 released in Feb 2015. So I don't know if you've been using a really old Firefox or only just noticed that it was not behaving the way it used to. It looks like the change stemmed from this bug report. You can view the current source code to see that option doesn't even exist at all anymore. As far as I'm able to tell, there is no longer any option to alter the default behavior.

However, the custom search modifier characters still work. So you can still search only within the URL, but you'll have to prefix your search with an @ symbol followed by a space character. There is a list of the search characters at the bottom of this page.

It looks like the behavior might be controlled here so you may be able to change it to default the way you want, if you are comfortable with that sort of thing. But you'd have to update it for every release of FF. Unless you're using something like Gentoo where you can just drop in user patches to be applied automatically to the build, it'll probably be a pain in the ass.

Good luck :)

OPERA

Sharing your pain.

The current situation will worsen in time since the main problem is, Firefox "alienated" its addon developers by forcing many things upon them. So most left coding anymore while few try their chances in Chrome with lesser functionality. This will grow up to the point even forks will become unpreferable because of unmaintained broken addons.

You can also try Firefox ESR (Extended Service Release) which follows few versions behind.

If you want a Google-free version of Chrome you can use Chromium or Vivaldi. Stay away from Opera. If you want a completely different codebase which is non-MS and non-Google, your options are Maxthon and Konqueror; I doubt you can easily run Konqueror on Windows, though. I'd suggest sticking with Firefox and dealing with its quirks.