Recent answers to After updating to version 9.0,Why is the text in the Awesome Bar greyed out and some of the text is black?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9152602012-01-25T03:16:01-08:00The new behavior beginning in Firefox 7 is to highlight the domain (i.e., mozilla.org) in the Locati2012-01-25T03:16:01-08:00SafeBrowserhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/915260#answer-302740<p>The new behavior beginning in Firefox 7 is to highlight the domain (i.e., <strong><a href="http://mozilla.org" rel="nofollow">mozilla.org</a></strong>) in the Location/URL/Address bar for easier identification.
</p><p>Users can revert to the old behavior by setting browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to false in about:config
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<ol><li>type <em><strong>about:config</strong></em> in the Location/URL/Address bar and press the Enter key
</li><li>if you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
</li><li>Filter = <strong>browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled</strong>
</li><li>double-click on the pref in the lower panel to toggle it to "false" <em><strong>OR</strong></em> right-click on the pref in the lower panel and choose "Toggle" to toggle it to "false"
</li><li>close the about:config tab
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<p>Not related to your question, but...
</p><p>You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:
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<ul><li>Plug-in check --&gt; <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/</a>
</li><li><em><strong>Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in</strong></em>: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Shockwave%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-shockwave" rel="nofollow">Installing (<em><strong>or Updating</strong></em>) the Shockwave plugin with Firefox</a>
</li><li>Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Adobe%20Reader%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-and-updating-adobe-reader" rel="nofollow">Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox</a>
</li><li>Shockwave Flash (Adobe Flash or Flash): <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing%20the%20Flash%20plugin#w_updating-flash" rel="nofollow">Updating Flash in Firefox</a>
</li><li><em><strong>Next Generation Java Plug-in for Mozilla browsers</strong></em>: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Java%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-or-updating-java" rel="nofollow">Installing or Updating Java in Firefox</a>
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