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How to disable bookmark auto-hide?

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When I switched to FF4, I set up the option to auto-hide my bookmarks tab on Firefox after 2 or 3 seconds when mouse isn't on it anymore. It was quite useful for its time, even if it bothered me that whenever it scrolled back up, whatever website I had open also moved a little and I'd miss whatever I was clicking at the moment. Now my browsing preferences have changed and I don't use the tab anymore, so I deleted all the bookmarks from the tab and tried to disable the whole tab from Firefox menu options. But whatever set-up I did overrides it and makes the bookmark tab appear for 2-3 seconds anyway. I know it's not an add-on, seeing as I have very few add-ons installed and I could not find anything related to this on my add-on manager. I also don't remember editing a script to do this. I've tried installing different auto-hide add-ons, hoping they'd override it somehow, but it won't work. I also tried installing a Stylish style to do the same thing and then put the settings at 0 seconds and 0 opacity in case it would override it and thus (in a way) disable it, but even with these settings I see the bar appearing for 2-3 seconds just like before, although much slimmer than before. It's a small detail, but after hours of trying to get rid of it, it starts to get very annoying.

I believe I originally found the instructions on how to able the auto-hide on Lifehacker, but now I can't find out what exactly I did and how to undo it. Does anyone know what I have installed, why it isn't showing on the add-on list and how to disable it? Thank you very much, I simply can't stand this frustration.

When I switched to FF4, I set up the option to auto-hide my bookmarks tab on Firefox after 2 or 3 seconds when mouse isn't on it anymore. It was quite useful for its time, even if it bothered me that whenever it scrolled back up, whatever website I had open also moved a little and I'd miss whatever I was clicking at the moment. Now my browsing preferences have changed and I don't use the tab anymore, so I deleted all the bookmarks from the tab and tried to disable the whole tab from Firefox menu options. But whatever set-up I did overrides it and makes the bookmark tab appear for 2-3 seconds anyway. I know it's not an add-on, seeing as I have very few add-ons installed and I could not find anything related to this on my add-on manager. I also don't remember editing a script to do this. I've tried installing different auto-hide add-ons, hoping they'd override it somehow, but it won't work. I also tried installing a Stylish style to do the same thing and then put the settings at 0 seconds and 0 opacity in case it would override it and thus (in a way) disable it, but even with these settings I see the bar appearing for 2-3 seconds just like before, although much slimmer than before. It's a small detail, but after hours of trying to get rid of it, it starts to get very annoying. I believe I originally found the instructions on how to able the auto-hide on Lifehacker, but now I can't find out what exactly I did and how to undo it. Does anyone know what I have installed, why it isn't showing on the add-on list and how to disable it? Thank you very much, I simply can't stand this frustration.

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Start Firefox in Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Thanks for the help! Unfortunately, it didn't work. When I restarted Firefox in safe mode, the problem was gone. When I restarted it by permanently disabling EVERYTHING, everything else is disabled and gone (add-ons, bookmarks...) except for the problem. My whole Firefox is blank but the bookmark tab keeps doing the few second auto-hide. So it indeed wasn't an add-on, nor a preference setting, or anything I could possibly come up with. I simply can't get rid of it. Good thing I backed everything up... I think I'll just uninstall Firefox completely and then install it again.

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Do you have code in userChrome.css to accomplish that hide?

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Oh! That would explain it. Must have been that, since it was no add-on of any kind, and now that I think about it, I remember entering a piece of code somewhere. Especially seeing as when I first uninstalled Firefox and left a few things behind (including userChrome.css), the auto-hide was still there when I re-installed and started it up. So I uninstalled it again, this time deleting every single thing, and re-installed, and finally! FINALLY it's gone! My Firefox has been cured! Probably should have taken a look at the userChrome.css before going all-out but I needed to perform a proper clean up on FF anyway, so this simplified my life in a way. Thanks for trying to help anyway!

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