How do I remove the search function from the URL Bar?

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Hi there. Brave is a good browser, but it has this “feature” that is the absolute worst. It won’t allow me to remove the search function from the url bar. I don’t want to use the url bar to search. EVER. I only want to use it for navigating websites. In firefox, this is easy to figure out, and I have it so I can, say, type “yahoo” and instantly go to yahoo.com. In Brave, I get a duckduckgo search of the word “yahoo.” This is ridiculous. Please tell me how to delete search functionality from Brave Browser.

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There is an open Github issue regarding the subject, but unfortunately work in this direction is not expected any time soon.

You could use Github issue’s author’s workaround - an invalid default search engine, but that looks quite uncomfortable, personally to me.