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Restore Old Search Bar

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Longtimeuser replied 11 years ago
edmonston
edmonston

Is there a way to get the search bar back to how it was before FF36?

Is there a way to get the search bar back to how it was before FF36?

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cor-el
cor-el
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If you want to restore the previous appearance of the search bar and the standalone window to manage search engines then you can toggle this pref to false with a middle-click on the about:config page.

  • about:config page: browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false

Close and restart Firefox to the change effective.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

edmonston
edmonston Question owner

Yep, worked. Much obliged.

Longtimeuser
Longtimeuser

edmonston said

Is there a way to get the search bar back to how it was before FF36?

cor-el said

If you want to restore the previous appearance of the search bar and the standalone window to manage search engines then you can toggle this pref to false with a middle-click on the about:config page.
  • about:config page: browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false
Close and restart Firefox to the change effective. You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

about:config</b> page: browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false

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