Judging from your description I think you mean the Tracking Protection shield icon and the padlock icon.

The former allow to disable Tracking Protection for the current web page and inspect what content is blocked.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

The latter shows information about the website and can possibly be accompanied by a permissions icon that is present when you have made changes to the permissions for this website.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-tell-if-my-connection-is-secure

It is not advised to remove these icons.

Do they take up too much space that you want to remove them ?

Can you attach a screenshot ?

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem
• use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot

Thanks for reply, cor-el. Nonetheless, I did remove the icons. I'm going to presume their functions (which I assume did NOT stop) continues. I am now able to see part of my KB input into the address bar at abt 18cm (7in) screen pg W, which is all that I ask. I'm marking this as solved. Simplicity is all I ask.

If you attach a screenshot then we might be able to give other suggestions to increase the available space for the location bar input field. If you hide the shield then you won't be able to disable Tracking Protection.

For instance I use code in userChrome.css to collapse icon that show at the far right of the location bar as part of the page actions and I only leave the bookmarks star visible.

You can see the difference in the screenshots.

You can 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 */

/* PAGE-ACTION - Hide separator, show buttons after 1-sec hover */
#pageActionSeparator, #star-button-animatable-image {display: none !important;}

#page-action-buttons image:not(#star-button) {
 width: 0 !important; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}
#page-action-buttons:hover image:not(#star-button) {
 width: 24px !important; padding: 4px !important; transition: all 1s ease-in-out 1s;
}

It is not that difficult to create userChrome.css if you have never used it.

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

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-troubleshooting-information-page-fix-firefox

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 plain text file with the name userChrome.css (name is case sensitive). In this userChrome.css text file you paste the text posted. On Mac you can use the TextEdit utility to create the userChrome.css file as a plain text file.

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".

You need to close (Quit/Exit) and restart Firefox when you create or modify the userChrome.css file.

See also:

• https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html
• https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html

In Firefox 69 and later you need to set this pref to true on the about:config page to enable userChrome.css and userContent.css in the chrome folder.

• toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets = true

See:

• https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-changes-userchrome-css.html