need an option to remove the new 'visit url' default on the address bar.
i use the up and down in there anyway. i don't need that extra blah. and i can't remove single shot urls from my history anymore.
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Hi atleast4chars, that top item is for your information: it describes what is going to happen if you press Enter or click the Go button.
- If there are no spaces in what you typed, usually that first row will show where "autofill" will take you if you press Enter or click Go.
- If there are spaces in what you typed, that first row will show what search engine will be used if you press Enter or click Go.
However, if you want to skip over that and use the first suggested site from history or bookmarks, it is still one down-arrow-press from where you are typing.
You can remove that line in two ways:
(1) Roll back the changes to the bar using a preference
This prevents Firefox from showing search engine suggestions on the bar, so for anyone wanting to display those, this would not be a good approach.
(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete preference to switch it from true to false
(2) Hide the top line of the bar using a custom style rule
You can apply custom style rules to Firefox's user interface using either the Stylish extension or a userChrome.css file. For example, here's a rule that will do the trick:
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult richlistitem[type*="heuristic"] { display:none !important; }
If you prefer this approach, we could spell out the steps in more detail.
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Hi atleast4chars, that top item is for your information: it describes what is going to happen if you press Enter or click the Go button.
- If there are no spaces in what you typed, usually that first row will show where "autofill" will take you if you press Enter or click Go.
- If there are spaces in what you typed, that first row will show what search engine will be used if you press Enter or click Go.
However, if you want to skip over that and use the first suggested site from history or bookmarks, it is still one down-arrow-press from where you are typing.
You can remove that line in two ways:
(1) Roll back the changes to the bar using a preference
This prevents Firefox from showing search engine suggestions on the bar, so for anyone wanting to display those, this would not be a good approach.
(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete preference to switch it from true to false
(2) Hide the top line of the bar using a custom style rule
You can apply custom style rules to Firefox's user interface using either the Stylish extension or a userChrome.css file. For example, here's a rule that will do the trick:
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult richlistitem[type*="heuristic"] { display:none !important; }
If you prefer this approach, we could spell out the steps in more detail.
atleast4chars said
i can't remove single shot urls from my history anymore.
Sorry, what do you mean by this? Where are you trying to delete URLs that is not working?
nice... that unifiedcomplete did it. and... i sometimes use the bar plus history to remove urls that are popup in the autofill. or as a quick clean for the history. it didn't work if there's only one in it. ;)