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How do I customize the "awesome bar"?

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I just got the forced upgrade to Firefox 12, and while I don't care for most of the new interface, I can deal. That said, I can't stand the changes to the "awesome bar." It's very distracting that it's highlighted every time I move my cursor over it, and I also don't like that all text other than the main domain (e.g., mozilla.org) is grayed out. Is there any way to get it back to normal?

I just got the forced upgrade to Firefox 12, and while I don't care for most of the new interface, I can deal. That said, I can't stand the changes to the "awesome bar." It's very distracting that it's highlighted every time I move my cursor over it, and I also don't like that all text other than the main domain (e.g., mozilla.org) is grayed out. Is there any way to get it back to normal?
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You would be able to get almost all the desired customizations via add-ons and personas. There's a nice post regarding that and more here.

Firefox latest

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Hi,

You can try to set the values of browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll and browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to false in about:config.

about:config Entries

Halfway there, thanks! Now all my text in the address bar is black. The field itself is still gray, though, until I move my cursor over it or highlight the text, then it turns white. I'd like to have it just be white all the time (and if there's a way to turn off the progress bar in the address bar, that would be awesome; if not, I can live with it).

Chosen Solution

You would be able to get almost all the desired customizations via add-ons and personas. There's a nice post regarding that and more here.

Firefox latest

Awesome, thanks so much.

You're welcome :)