Firefox 75

[MrMobodies]

I am pretty sure I opened up a thread a couple of months ago about experimenting with Firefox 75 right after the Vivaldi one and it disappeared or maybe I thought I did.

It went from:


To this:


There was one annoyance and I didn't know what it was:


Until now except below didn't work:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1283831

Disable new URL bar in Version 75
Airdropper
4/8/20, 2:34 AM

Hello all,
this new expanding URL Bar is HORRIBLE.
How can i disable this stupid implementation ?

Hello Airdropper,
I totally agree with you ....
Would you do this please :
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter. (ignore the warning)
Type in the search bar and look for the preference :
browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus
and set its value to false
Do the same with these preferences :
browser.urlbar.update1
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips

Then close and restart Firefox.

(if it's only the Top Sites suggestions that you want to get rid of : setting the value of first preference to "false" will do that)

EMR
4/18/20, 2:36 AM
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So it looks like the devs are insistant that this will be "the way to present" mozilla from now on from the bugzilla posts. Cleaning up my bookmarks ready to jump ship when this workaround stops working in Version 77.

I found this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627989

Dão Gottwald [::dao]
Reporter    
Description • 4 months ago
• Edited

This is an internal pref that has lost its purpose now that we've enabled it by default in release. Bug 1627858 has been filed for a user-visible pref for the top sites feature.

Enabled it by default of course but, what has that got to do with the flags to turn it off.
Feel the arrogance?

Need to set this in about:config for UserChrome.css in profile to work
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets       true
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-firefox-address-bar/
Add to UserChrome.CSS
If windows: C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<current firefox profile>\Chrome\userChrome.css

/* based on https://old.reddit.com/comments/fwhlva//fmolndz */
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend]:not([open]) {
top: calc((var(--urlbar-toolbar-height) - var(--urlbar-height)) / 2) !important;
left: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend]:not([open]) > #urlbar-input-container {
height: var(--urlbar-height) !important;
padding-block: 0px !important;
padding-inline: 0px !important;
}
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend][breakout-extend-animate] > #urlbar-background {
animation-name: none !important;
}
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend]:not([open]) > #urlbar-background {
box-shadow: none !important;
}

I forgot my Userchrome.css with all the other stuff in there which is large and includes the above css script:
https://pastebin.com/9wntCWcC

about:config

pdfjs.disabled                                    false
keyword.enabled                            false
browser.search.context.loadInBackground   false
browser.zoom.updateBackgroundTabs           false
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled              false
browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash   false

browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches      false
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults      0
browser.urlbar.trimURLs                 false
browser.urlbar.placeholdername      Google
browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmarks   false
browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark      false
browser.urlbar.suggest.history      false
browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage      false
browser.urlbar.suggest.searches      false
browser.urlbar.autofill                 false
browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled   false
browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled           false
browser.urlbar.update1                 false
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions   false
browser.urlbar.update1.SearchTips   false
browser.urlbar.update1.view.stripHttps   false
browser.urlbar.speculativeConnect.enabled       false
browser.urlbar.switchtabs.adoptiveIntoActiveWindow    false

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.urlbar.maxRichResults     false
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark false
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage false

toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstrun       false
toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled   false
devtools.whatsnew.enabled      false
devtools.whatsnew.feature-enabled   false
signon.showAutocompleteOrigins      false
signon.storewhenautompleteoff      false

Extensions I use:
Adblock plus
Applications Menu
Element Remover
Sticky Ducky
New Tab Context
Stop button
Link Status Redux

I'll be looking for more stuff to improve the appearance.


Edit: I have just found the original pictures see attachments and more about:config flags put in above.