Re: Disble new megabar

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi,

qorg11 <qorg@vxempire.xyz> writes:

> Is it possible to disable the new megabar introduced in the last
> version of IceCat?
>
> I know this can be changed editing the userChrome.css. But I also mean
> the new behaviour (1 click selects all the text in the bar)

Part of the new behavior can be disabled by manually adding
"browser.urlbar.disableExtendForTests" as a boolean option set to true
in <about:config>, and setting "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" to 0,
as described here:

  
https://www.askvg.com/tip-new-working-method-to-disable-enlarging-address-bar-in-mozilla-firefox/

Unfortunately, Mozilla removed the code that previously allowed users to
disable the new "click selects all" behavior.  For more on this, see:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570

Here's the upstream changeset that removed that code:

  https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9d574c79405d

In theory, we could effectively revert that change in IceCat, although
if Mozilla makes further significant changes to the URL bar code,
ongoing maintenance of that functionality might become a burden for us.

       Mark