How can I turn off autosearch in Firefox to allow for an unknow address?

I need help disabling the autosearch provider in Firefox 8.0. I need to reset my wireless adaptor for my Tivo DVR and in order to do this, I disable my wireless network, type a series of numbers into the Firefox address bar and click return key. This then is supposed to take me to a Wireless “Setup Wizard” housed in the adaptor, not the internet. However, when I try this, Firefox tries to connect and then I get an error message that it could not and the site is busy. How do I disable “autosearch” so that Firefox goes to this non-internet based link rather than first going to Google search engine?
I have tried the following based on Firefox Help page:
I have entered “about”config” and then set “keyword.enabled” to “false” and also “browser.fixup.alternate.enabled” to “false”.
Is there anything else I can do so that Firefox connects directly to the Setup Wizard rather than attempting to go to a search engine first?
Thanks for your help.

Preferences are stored in the ''prefs.js'' file under the user's profile folder. Barring any third-party tools, the registry doesn't have anything to do with it.
* [[Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data]]
You can modify preferences for a Firefox installation, which would affect all users running that copy. The preference you'll want to modify is ''security.mixed_content.block_active_content'' (set to '''true''' by default).
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences

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