How can I make the Find bar (when I type Ctl F) to appear at the top rather than at the bottom - in Wondows 7?
How can I make the Find bar (when I type Ctl F) to appear at the top rather than at the bottom - in Wondows 7?
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I that is pretty much baked in. There was a way to do so in userChrome but the page has been archived and that usually means that the answer no longer works in versions after what was being discussed.
If familiar with working with userChrome you can find the answer here and try it : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1197650 If works great, if not just delete the code or the file you have created and Firefox will go back to being as it was.
All information is on that page if not familiar with userChrome and it would take 10mins to read, 5mins to do.
There is a beta Extension to but it up top : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brandon1024-find/ A little redundant if does not close the bottom one and uses ram.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
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I that is pretty much baked in. There was a way to do so in userChrome but the page has been archived and that usually means that the answer no longer works in versions after what was being discussed.
If familiar with working with userChrome you can find the answer here and try it : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1197650 If works great, if not just delete the code or the file you have created and Firefox will go back to being as it was.
All information is on that page if not familiar with userChrome and it would take 10mins to read, 5mins to do.
There is a beta Extension to but it up top : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brandon1024-find/ A little redundant if does not close the bottom one and uses ram.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
The userChrome.css approach still works in Firefox 61 -- screenshot attached. (Threads are archived when they reach six months of age, even if they are not obsolete yet.)
If you already have a working userChrome.css file, just add the rules listed under (A).
Starting from scratch, this is about a 10-minute project, so when you can focus on it:
(A) Select and copy all of the following code
/*** Find Bar Tweaks ***/
.browserContainer > findbar {
/* Position the Find Bar above the page */
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 0;
/* Move Find Bar border from top to bottom */
border-top: none !important;
border-bottom: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
}
(B) Generate and download a userChrome.css file
Open this page and paste the rules into the editor:
https://www.userchrome.org/download-userchrome-css.html
Then click "Generate CSS File" and save the userChrome.css file to your computer.
(C) Create a new chrome folder in your profile folder
The following article has the detailed steps for that (#1, #2, and I recommend #3)
https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
I also created video for both Mac and Windows, on that same page.
(D) Move the userChrome.css file you generated in Step B into the chrome folder
The next time you quit Firefox and start it up again, it should discover that file and apply the rules.
Success?
I am using the Beta Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brandon1024-find/. So far, it works perfectly. I need the Find search on top, because a toolbar for another extension I use shows up on the bottom, and the normal Mozilla find bar covers up that extension.