Question

Magento’s search box display a rather horrid looking/ slow loading search suggest box underneath as you type a search.

Where is the best place in the code to remove this feature.

Answer 1

You could give either a try:

In Magento template’s css file, find:

.search auto-complete

and add:

display: none;

to get:

.search-autocomplete { display: none; }

You’ll have to make sure your css gets refreshed.

OR

Look for this: \template\catalogsearch\form.mini.phtml and remove or comment out the line containing:

searchForm.initAutocomplete(.......