How to disable Google auto-complete and instant search functions

Until the last week, I have been successfully using http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0 to disable Google's insistence on forcing users' searches to use the infuriating auto-complete and Instant Search functions (the option to disable the former was removed by Google from Preferences while the latter doesn't retain the disabling in Preferences).
However, Google now seems to have beaten my first choice workaround.
Before I switch to one last possible workaround, I wondered if Firefox users knew of any others?
Failures so far are: *http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0 *www.google.co.uk/firefox *https://encrypted.google.com/

You can use:
* http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0
* https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0
Those two do not show suggestions, but also do not have autocomplete=off in case you are remembering form data
*Tools > Options > Privacy > History: "Remember search and form history"

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