Mozilla Help: When using the search bar, how do I make Mozilla wait until I press <enter> to start the search?

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Last updated on November 3, 2004.

When using the search bar, how do I make Mozilla wait until I press <enter> to start the search?

Locate the file "messenger.jar" in the Mozilla/chrome/ directory. Back up the file messenger.jar

Then:
Unzip "messenger.jar" using WinZip for instance.
Locate the directory /content/messenger/ in messenger.jar and the file searchBar.js
Edit searchBar.js and delete 800 (see below **)

Save and repack messenger.jar.

** The figure is 800 (milliseconds) as can be seen from the onSearchInput function in searchBar.js in which case you can still hit enter to force a search.