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Fixing GUI elements and preventing them from being hidden or moved

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sosmike
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My mother, 79, has always troubles that the bookmark toolbar of Firefox (on Windows) disappears, don't know what she's doing there. Then I have to help her and make it visible again. So I would find it very useful, that GUI-elements could be fixed, mainly the bookmark toolbar, so that it cant be removed and hidden. Is there an option or an add-on for that? Generally I think it would be a good feature to have a special mode, which is targeted to users which have not absolutely perfect motoric skills.

Regards, Mike

My mother, 79, has always troubles that the bookmark toolbar of Firefox (on Windows) disappears, don't know what she's doing there. Then I have to help her and make it visible again. So I would find it very useful, that GUI-elements could be fixed, mainly the bookmark toolbar, so that it cant be removed and hidden. Is there an option or an add-on for that? Generally I think it would be a good feature to have a special mode, which is targeted to users which have not absolutely perfect motoric skills. Regards, Mike

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Shadow110
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Mouse to top of Browser and Right Click then untick Bookmarks Toolbar Can also hide the Menu Bar also

Can still find the bookmarks that where there through the Bookmark Menu as are in Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.

https://www.howtogeek.com/333110/how-to-customize-firefox-quantum-and-remove-the-white-space-around-the-title-bar/

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

Shadow110
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Might find the Accessibility Theme and Font Changer useful. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/

cor-el
cor-el
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Try this code in userChrome.css.

Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line. 

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#PersonalToolbar[collapsed="true"]{
 visibility: visible !important;
 max-height: unset !important;
}

It is not that difficult to create userChrome.css.

The first step is to open the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" page and find the button to access the profile folder.

You can find this button under the "Application Basics" section as "Profile Folder -> Open Folder". If you click this button then you open the profile folder in the Windows File Explorer. You need to create a folder with the name chrome in this folder (name is all lowercase). In the chrome folder you need to create a text file with the name userChrome.css (name is case sensitive). In this userChrome.css text file you paste the text posted.

In Windows saving the file is usually the only time things get more complicated because Windows can silently add a .txt file extension and you end up with a file named userChrome.css.txt. To avoid this you need to make sure to select "All files" in the dialog to save the file in the text editor using "Save File as".