Comments on: 9 tweaks for Firefox 3′s location bar

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:21:32 +0000

I tried hiding the favorites star, and the feeds icon. The star was gone instantly, but the rss feeds icon wouldn’t go away. I changed the code up a bit and it works now, this is what I used if anyone needs it:

#feed-button {display: none !important;}

Hope that helps!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:05:06 +0000

I have the same issue. I finally moved from IE7 to Firefox, because I hear all this great stuff about how much faster, safer and better firefox is. I install it, and within 1 day, I see the same issues. When I do a google search, it brings up a list of the searches I find. If I click on the link that I want, it takes me to some stupid shopping link. If I go back and choose the link again, it takes me to a different shopping link, or to some dumb style magazine link. After about the 4th try, it finally goes to the page I want. I ran a spyware program and it did not fix it. There must be some type of add on that I did. I added the sticky pad, the weather forecast and Kallout. It must be one of those. Have you installed any add-ons?

By: Paul Bags

Paul Bags — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:11:16 +0000

Indeed, I only moved to 3 because I got a system destroying virus sticking with 2. The reason i stayed with 2? this fucking feature.

By: venusvegasvada

venusvegasvada — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:53:12 +0000

“An option to restore its old behavior was available for a few weeks during Firefox 3 development but it was pulled basically because it would need a lot of testing and it was thought it was not worth it. The option may come back for Firefox 3.1″

I think your a bunch of idiots.

By: Paul_Bags

Paul_Bags — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:52:56 +0000

Is there any way I can completely disable the address bar search? So that when I type an address it just goes into the bar and nothing else is being done in the background until I hit enter and it tries to load? See, my problem is that when it tries to search while I type it hangs and I can see what I’ve typed or move to a different tab while I wait for it to load. This is very frustrating, if I’m typing a URL chances are I know the whole URL and can type it faster than FF can do it’s search shit.

tl;dr? == do not want.

By: tania

tania — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:13:13 +0000

when i wanted to type something in the address bar it would get it for example if i wrote waltmart it got it and corrected it and it would send me to walmart. but now its not working it sends me to this weird page :S
help.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:09:46 +0000

Hi, thanks for the posting. I also want to express my dissatisfaction here, since I’m not sure where else to do it. :) What really bothers me about these tweaks is that Firefox’s own methods for removing the bookmark/address bar history don’t work. I mean, if you go to tools/options and tell it to clear all history, it should clear all history. If you manually delete one, it should delete permanently, not come up the next time you start Firefox. Additionally, CCleaner doesn’t get rid of them anymore. Overall, it’s a true pain and a real turnoff. I changed it so that nothing shows now, but of course, now I have to type in every URL from here on out.

By: iain

iain — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:24:00 +0000

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU
this helped so much because my firefox browser always showed my bookmarks an now it doesnt thank you so much

By: p1nk g33k

p1nk g33k — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:16:45 +0000

I said the same thing when I first upgraded my Firefox. Now, I love it. The autocomplete feature has helped me find pages that I never would have found if I had to search through all of my history manually.

By: FF3 location bar tweaks « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix

FF3 location bar tweaks « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:50:57 +0000

[...] FF3 location bar tweaks Filed under: Technology — 0ddn1x @ 2008-12-02 20:49:36 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/9-tweaks-for-firefox-3s-location-bar/ [...]

By: Looie

Looie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:14:18 +0000

Thanks for this. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks the not-so-AwesomeBar sucks.

By: Firefox 3 - AwesomeBar hacks « My own scribblings

Firefox 3 - AwesomeBar hacks « My own scribblings — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:06:33 +0000

[...] I got the above two tweaks from here. This page has got more tweaks which I haven’t tested [...]

By: Michael Jacobsen

Michael Jacobsen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:26:32 +0000

You got searchery’s url wrong: it’s https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7615

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:47:23 +0000

Yes it is normal. Just rename userChrome-example.css, add the code, save and restart Firefox to apply the changes.

By: Glenn Evans

Glenn Evans — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:48:44 +0000

I wanted to try a couple of these FF3.0 tweaks. But after several minutes of searching, I was forced to the realization that I just don’t have a userChrome.css file anywhere on the hard drives of any of my 3 mach’s. All I could find were userChrome-example.css files.
Is this normal?

By: Temp

Temp — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:30:58 +0000

Does anyone else have problems with the first weak, getting rid of the bookmarks appearing? I’ve tried the matchOnlyTyped thing and set it to true, but my bookmarks still show up. Help, please?

By: Janis

Janis — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:23:54 +0000

Omg, I love you! Thanks. I couldn’t find anyway to delete the urls I typed in.

By: Maryanne

Maryanne — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:18:17 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I used the first 3 tweaks and now it’s exactly how I like it.

By: Tex

Tex — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:48:02 +0000

In reply to Fred Mertz: I totally agree with him. Why is it someone has to “improve” a well working simple system to the point of absurdity.

“All this new stuff sucks. Itâ€™s typical geek junk that turns off so many ordinary users from open-source or collective-designed software.
They had a good thing and they overcomplicated it.
I am just furious about this.”
Me Too!
Please-please bring back the old system or at least give us the choice.

By: Thor

Thor — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:34:48 +0000

Thank you!! I don’t need my porn searches displayed every time I use the location bar

Thank you

By: EddieBear

EddieBear — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:48:15 +0000

about:config

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

(default = 12, change it to whatever you want; I use 20.)

Don’t know about the “star” query.

By: Dreadnought

Dreadnought — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:36 +0000

In reply, you want to do the 3rd tweak listed and set the number of results to 0 and it won’t drop down anything when you type it, so you don’t have to worry about anything dropping down for people to see.

By: Dreadnought

Dreadnought — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:34:08 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t like the address bar to drop down some of the more…sensitive….addresses and such, so, I tried the first one and that didn’t help, so I just set the number of results that it shows to 0 and it doesn’t do that drop down thing! Sweet, tons of help from mozillalinks.org

By: Hexagonal

Hexagonal — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:37:57 +0000

I revile the new features. They are utterly detestable. Repulsive. Ill-conceived and ill-executed. Dumbly defaulted. Worthy of Microsoft.

I set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 immediately. Repulsive thumb-twiddling punks with too much time on their hands, don’t give us “features” that downgrade a product.

Even thinking about the 10 minutes it took to find out how to fix the problem makes my blood boil. Those damn Moz Punks. The hell with ‘em.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:23:28 +0000

As previously reported, tweak #1 does not work as advertised. For the programmers reference… I am using xp pro for an os. Despite installing the ‘oldbar’ and implementing tweak#1 I still get history items listed in the pull down. This is enough to end my days with firefox… too bad, it was good while it lasted. Maybe it will get fixed before I completely abandon mozilla :(