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How to hide the search bar?

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teemu4
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I cannot find how to hide the search bar. I rarely use search and I can't figure out why it should be shown to me all the time.

BR, Teemu

I cannot find how to hide the search bar. I rarely use search and I can't figure out why it should be shown to me all the time. BR, Teemu
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Right-click the space beside the bar, Customize..., drag the search box off the bar.

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sfhowes
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Right-click the space beside the bar, Customize..., drag the search box off the bar.

teemu4
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Thanks a lot! I have no idea why I didn't figure that out myself.

Ferdinand
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But this doesn't actually hide the search bar - it just leaves it empty, wasting a toolbar's worth of space at the top of the window. Can't it be just hidden? It could be used as a toolbar I guess, but it can't be moved below the menu, so it just clutters everything up.

sfhowes
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Ferdinand said
But this doesn't actually hide the search bar - it just leaves it empty, wasting a toolbar's worth of space at the top of the window. Can't it be just hidden? It could be used as a toolbar I guess, but it can't be moved below the menu, so it just clutters everything up.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1425289