ModdIt
If you dislike the Firefox rubbish Popdown menu, Ads aka topsites, rich results (no you do not get rich, mozilla bosses do) and search suggestions you can restore the old style. Until Mozilla stops us breaking the browser that is. Disconnect from Internet Before starting firefox after every update, go through settings,
they may well have been “repaired”, to take away your privacy..
New method. In /home/youruser/.mozilla/firefox/”something”.default-release you will find your firefox profile
Create a folder “chrome” in that folder a text file called userChrome.css
Paste in, as usual you will have to fix minus minus in front of urlbar-toolbar-height, urlbar-height
save, restart FF and enjoy. The tip was passed on to me, I do not know who wrote the fix so uable to give credit, but it is working fine.
/* Disable new Megabar in Mozilla Firefox – Start */
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend] {
top: calc((var(- -urlbar-toolbar-height) – var(- -urlbar-height)) / 2) !important;
left: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend] > #urlbar-background {
animation-name: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
#urlbar[breakout][breakout-extend] > #urlbar-input-container {
height: var(- -urlbar-height) !important;
width: 100% !important;
padding-block: 0 !important;
padding-inline: 0 !important;
transition: none !important;
}
.urlbarView {
margin-inline: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
.urlbarView-row {
padding-block: 0 !important;
}
.urlbarView-type-icon {
min-width: 16px !important;
height: 16px !important;
margin-bottom: 0 !important;
margin-inline-start: 0 !important;
}
.urlbarView-favicon {
margin-inline-start: 25px !important;
}
}
/* Disable new Megabar in Mozilla Firefox – End */
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you may still like to do some or all of below so left as is
In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising
to be careful.
In the preference search box enter “urlb”
Ensure the following preferences are set to false
browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled
browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark
browser.urlbar.suggest.history
browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage
browser.urlbar.suggest.searches
browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.urlbar.suggest.searches
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.urlbar.maxRichResults set to 0
I also suggest to change the trimURLs preference to false. that allows you to see the full url.
Important for your security. Enabling the search bar instead of searching with the urlbar can,
depending on your settings increase privacy.
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“Addition” Mozilla remotely messed with my settings.
In /home/youruser/.mozilla/firefox/”something”.default-release you will find your firefox profile
Even when you have switched off telemetry you can often see saved telemetry pings with unique ids. I deleted contents set folder to read only.
You might also “accidentaly” set datareporting and crashes to read only, after removing the unique id`s from contents if present.
Look in shield-preference-experiments If the word experiments is found delete it set to read only
Mozilla can and does change user settings remotely, mine were fixed yet again, ie changed from what i had set
I also suggest to change the trimURLs preference to false. that allows you to see the full url.
Important for your security. Enabling the search bar instead of searching with the urlbar can,
depending on your settings increase privacy.
You can also go to your firefox installation and remove: crashreporter, crashreporter.ini pingsender, updater updater.ini
no matter whether you or the distro provide updates.
In the folder browser subfolder features you will find hidden extensions, firefox runs perfectly well without them,
I deleted all.
- This reply was modified 6 years ago by ModdIt. Reason: clarity
- This reply was modified 6 years ago by ModdIt. Reason: Addition