Firefox Search Bar Question

I don't like it, never use it and am wondering if there is a way to delete the little search bar on the other side of the GO button. I can delete the search engines it has in it, I found out how to do that but I would like to rid my browser of the whole search bar. Is there a way to do that? Thank you.

Vanilla Ice

 

Vanilla Ice,
Did you try and "right click" the bar that contains the search box ?
and select "Customize "
This should bring up the "Customize Toolbar" dialog box.
Select the icon in the Search box and hold down left mouse button.
Sould turn into arrow with small box attached.
Holding down the left mouse button, drag it to the dialog box and release.

This should remove the search box ???

regards:captjlddavis

 

Thank you very much, captjlddavis. Your info worked great. No more Search Bar. (Wonder why I didn't think of doing that)

Vanilla

 

I like the search window, and use it all the time, but didn't like the fact that its default location cut down on the length of the address window.

Then I discovered that, by using FF's "Customize" feature, I could drag it from the navigation toolbar to the menu bar. I also put the Stop and Mail buttons there, as well as the SpoofStick bar. And, I removed the throbber, which really served no useful purpose (for me). Now, I have a much better utilization of space.

 

What does the mail button do? Good idea to move Google bar up one level.

 

Also, what is spoof-stick-bar?

 

Your layout of the Toolbars do not look bad at all. Very nifty in fact. I might try to do mine that way.

Vanilla

 

Hey there, Jim!
I, too, relocated my spoofstick bar to the menu bar a few weeks ago - a vast improvement over it taking up an entire "bar" of its own (used to show up below my navigation toolbar)! I like your idea of moving my search window up there too, but I can't figure out how to move that one. When I click on "customize ", I don't see an icon representing my search window in that menu. Instructions, please?
Edit: never mind, Jim, I just figured it out! Got rid of that house icon, too, while I was at it, since that's one I never use!

Ackberg -
When I click on the mail icon, there's a choice of "read mail" or "new message" (i.e., compose). It ties in to Thunderbird for me; don't know if it would open up another mail program if you used a different one as your default.

[taken from http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/]
SpoofStick is a simple browser extension that helps users detect spoofed (fake) websites. A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. The attacker then tries to trick people into going to the spoofed site by sending out fake email messages or posting links in public places - hoping that some percentage of users won't notice the incorrect URL and give away important information. This practice is sometimes known as "phishing ".
SpoofStick makes it easier to spot a spoofed website by prominently displaying only the most relevant domain information. It's not a comprehensive solution, but it's a good start. For example, if you're on the following URL (this is a real, legitimate ebay url):

http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
SignIn&UsingSSL=0&pUserId=&ru=http%3A%2F%
2Fcontact.ebay.com%2Fws1%2FeBayISAPI.dll%
3FShowCoreAskSellerQuestion%26requested%
3Ddominicsmusic%26de%3Doff%26iid%
3D3711129021%26frm%3D284%26acceptcookie%
3D0%26loginconfirmed%3D0%26redirect%3D0%
26pass%3D%7B_pass_%7D%26userid%3D&pp=p
ass&co_partnerid=2&pageType=711"

Spoofstick will say: "You're on ebay.com ".

If you get fooled by going to a spoofed site, for example http://signin.ebay.com@10.19.32.4/ (a "spoof" example used by ebay in their customer outreach),

Spoofstick will say: "You're on 10.19.32.4 "

You can customize the color and size of the SpoofStick display to suit your tastes and make it harder for a fake site to try to "spoof" SpoofStick with a static graphic.
SpoofStick contains no adware, spyware, nagware or other unhealthy additives.

 

Thanks, Rebecca, You just made my day a bit easier, and answered Ackerberg's questions better than I probably would have. I'll elaborate a bit on the Mail button, though.

As Rebecca said, there are two choices, "Read Mail" and "New Message... ". "Read Mail" opens (for me) a new Thunderbird window with the inbox open, even if Tbird is already open. I say "for me" because I have a single POP account. I don't know what it would do with multiple accounts.

Selecting "New Message..." opens a Tbird composition window and allows you to send a message without having to open Tbird. A copy will automatically be placed in Tbird's "Sent" mail (assuming that you've made that selection in Account Settings > Copies & Folders).

 

It does not matter how many account you have. The new mail selection will open the entire thing, with the list of the accounts, but it will show a duplicate of the default account headers. In other words, a waste of time. As for New Message, it is not as bad, but, the From, must be changed from the dropdown, but this happens with multiple accounts.

 

Or, if a single account uses aliases. In my case, JSS3rd, Jim, JSS, and Dad are all aliases for my actual username, which normally is never seen. Selecting one from the dropdown menu adds a signature unique to that alias.

 

I receive my mail on a POP account in Mozilla, but my laptop has FF and I look at my mail using the Webmail for my POP account. Where did you get the "mail" program? I wonder if it open my webmail on my laptop?
Thnaks for the other info.
BTW, I moved my google bar to the top but was unable to make it longer so I can see most of what I type into it. Can you make it longer, or is your picture, JSS3rd, simply an optical illusion?

 

Take a look at:

Resize Search bar

I do not use that particular feature, as I prefer keywords and bookmarklets for searching - different strokes for different folks.....

regards:captjlddavis

 

If I understand your question correctly, you use Mozilla on your desktop for both sending and receiving mail, but you only use webmail to read your email on your laptop. I infer from that that you have Mozilla installed on your laptop, but you only use it as a browser. It would stand to reason, then, that the Mail button on your Mozilla toolbar would open the Mozilla mail windows. Remember that webmail is browser-based on your end.

It wasn't an optical illusion, as the search windows were exactly the same length.

This bugged me for a long time, as I thought it was too short, also, but I finally found the answer. captjlddavis just provided a link to an extension that will do it, but you can do it yourself by going into your profile folder's Chrome folder and opening the userChrome.css file in Notepad or any other text editor. Add the following:

/* Make the Search box flex wider
(in this case 250 pixels wide) */
#search-container, #searchbar {
-moz-box-flex: 250 !important;
}​

You can change the numbers to suit yourself, but this size works for me, and it appears to be dynamic, as the window changes size based on what appears on the adjacent SpoofStick bar. If you don't use SpoofStick, or if you have a blank address window, you'll have a longer search window. In both examples in the screenshot, the numerical value in userChrome.css is the same.

Edit: I just tried the extension mentioned above, and it will not work if the userChrome.css file has been edited as above. Re-editing userChrome.css to remove the lines allowed the extension to work but, of the two, I think I prefer the editing method, if only because it's one less extension to bother with.