How do I change History dropdown back to urls from icons?
What genius came up with the idea for replacing specific urls in the History dropdown with icons?
How do I fix this?
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This problem started with 29.0.1.
The history menu should show site icons on the left and the site title to the right of that. If you're seeing something different from the attached image, it's probably an issue caused by an add-on. Check if you have the same problem when Firefox is started in Safe Mode.
On an unrelated note, you have two versions of Flash Player installed. You should perform a clean install as follows.
- From the following page, save the uninstaller somewhere handy, like the desktop.
- From the following page, save the installer for other browsers. If you also use Flash Player in Internet Explorer, also save the ActiveX version.
- Exit all applications.
- Run the uninstaller.
- In Windows Explorer, try to open the following folders. If they still exist, delete them manually.
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C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\
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%AppData%\Adobe\Flash Player\
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%AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player\
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- Restart your computer.
- Run the installer for other browsers.
- Run the ActiveX installer if you downloaded it.
Is there anyway to get the old style History back?
You can select View History Sidebar to open the history in the sidebar or access the history in the History Manager (Library)
This is what I see when I click the History drop down menu.
If I hover over a particular icon, the url appears to the right of it.
I just want it back to the way it was yesterday where I see the full url in the drop down. It happens if I do as advised above and open History in a sidebar. But that's an extra step.
Dwight7787 wrote:
This is what I see when I click the History drop down menu.
That's caused either by a user style or an add-on.
- Type about:support into the address bar and press Enter.
- Click the Show Folder button.
- If in the window that opens you have a chrome folder, open it.
- Inside that folder, rename the userChrome.css file to userChrome-disabled.css and restart Firefox.
If you don't have such a file or folder or the problem persists, restart Firefox in Safe Mode. Add-ons like Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar would be the prime suspects.