How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
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How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
How do I add spacers to my address bar when I customize it?
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
Uhm, go to customize and drag a spacer to where you want it. Now, inside the URL bar where you type, I'm not sure you can really.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
I usually want more display space in the address bar, so in my case I ended up going into Hamburger menu -> Customize and drag the flexible space from both sides of the address bar back to the pallet. Without the flexible space, the address bar grows to occupy as much space as is available on that line.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
Spacers were removed in Firefox 29. Classic Theme Restorer enables spacers, but will cease to function when FF57 is released.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
If you only want extra spaces this thread may help ....
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3032911
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3032911
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
FF57 includes flexible spacers you can use. Uses two of them in the address bar by default (not for inside the address bar but between any of the elements on it).Reflective wrote:Spacers were removed in Firefox 29. Classic Theme Restorer enables spacers, but will cease to function when FF57 is released.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
Long ago I removed the Search box to maximize the URL bar. I do my searches from bookmarks.Mark12547 wrote:I usually want more display space in the address bar, so in my case I ended up going into Hamburger menu -> Customize and drag the flexible space from both sides of the address bar back to the pallet. Without the flexible space, the address bar grows to occupy as much space as is available on that line.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
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If you know how to use userChrome.css, add this to it and change the number of px to whatever you want.
BTW, this will continue to work with FF57+
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If you know how to use userChrome.css, add this to it and change the number of px to whatever you want.
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#urlbar-container{
max-width: 400px !important;
min-width: 400px !important;
}
BTW, this will continue to work with FF57+
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
You can add a flexible space at the position you want it via customization mode.
Then you can edit the browser.uiCustomization.state pref and replace "customizableui-special-spring" by "customizableui-special-spacer" or "customizableui-special-separator" depending on what type you want.
Leave the trailing identifier that needs to be unique to make these special items work.
Close and restart Firefox to update the Navigation Toolbar.
Once such a spacer is present on the toolbar you should be able to move it around or remove (right-click: Remove from Toolbar) it just like with other items.
Then you can edit the browser.uiCustomization.state pref and replace "customizableui-special-spring" by "customizableui-special-spacer" or "customizableui-special-separator" depending on what type you want.
Leave the trailing identifier that needs to be unique to make these special items work.
Close and restart Firefox to update the Navigation Toolbar.
Once such a spacer is present on the toolbar you should be able to move it around or remove (right-click: Remove from Toolbar) it just like with other items.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
I need some guidance dickvl. I created a brand new profile and without making any other about:config changes I attempted to enable a custom spacer to appear in the customization menu, but it didn't work.dickvl wrote:You can add a flexible space at the position you want it via customization mode.
Then you can edit the browser.uiCustomization.state pref and replace "customizableui-special-spring" by "customizableui-special-spacer" or "customizableui-special-separator" depending on what type you want.
Leave the trailing identifier that needs to be unique to make these special items work.
Close and restart Firefox to update the Navigation Toolbar.
Once such a spacer is present on the toolbar you should be able to move it around or remove (right-click: Remove from Toolbar) it just like with other items.
Here's the code for the default setup for a new profile which doesn't contain the "customizableui-special-spring" setting which you mentioned by the way:
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{"placements":{"PanelUI-contents":["edit-controls","zoom-controls","new-window-button","privatebrowsing-button","save-page-button","print-button","history-panelmenu","fullscreen-button","find-button","preferences-button","add-ons-button","developer-button","sync-button"],"addon-bar":["addonbar-closebutton","status-bar"],"PersonalToolbar":["personal-bookmarks"],"nav-bar":["urlbar-container","search-container","bookmarks-menu-button","downloads-button","home-button","pocket-button"],"TabsToolbar":["tabbrowser-tabs","new-tab-button","alltabs-button"],"toolbar-menubar":["menubar-items"]},"seen":["pocket-button","developer-button"],"dirtyAreaCache":["PersonalToolbar","nav-bar","TabsToolbar","toolbar-menubar"],"currentVersion":6,"newElementCount":0}
Here's a pix of the bare bones customization menu in the new profile which as you can see is devoid of any spacers: https://i.imgur.com/UxIKuYO.png
So does the custom spacer need to be placed at a particular spot in the browser.uiCustomization.state pref and if so, where exactly?
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
Firefox 52 doesn't have any of the special items like a spring or space in the Customize palette.
If you temporarily install CTR then you can use this extension to add these items more easily without the need to use these hacks.
All Firefox release support these items natively, but support for the user interface (customization mode) has been removed.
Firefox 57 supports only the flexible spring item and not the others so you need to modify browser.uiCustomization.state, but CTR supports all three and you can use customization mode.
You can uninstall CTR once you are done and have the spacers on the toolbar.
If you temporarily install CTR then you can use this extension to add these items more easily without the need to use these hacks.
All Firefox release support these items natively, but support for the user interface (customization mode) has been removed.
Firefox 57 supports only the flexible spring item and not the others so you need to modify browser.uiCustomization.state, but CTR supports all three and you can use customization mode.
You can uninstall CTR once you are done and have the spacers on the toolbar.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
OK, that's where the confusion came from then. I didn't realize ESR was missing those customization options.dickvl wrote:Firefox 52 doesn't have any of the special items like a spring or space in the Customize palette.
If you temporarily install CTR then you can use this extension to add these items more easily without the need to use these hacks.
All Firefox release support these items natively, but support for the user interface (customization mode) has been removed.
Firefox 57 supports only the flexible spring item and not the others so you need to modify browser.uiCustomization.state, but CTR supports all three and you can use customization mode.
You can uninstall CTR once you are done and have the spacers on the toolbar.
I know it doesn't matter at the mo because I'll continue to use CTR while ESR supports it, but was looking to the future and what options will still be available then.
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Re: How Do I Add Spacers to My Address Bar?
I don't understand the search bar... Wouldn't it be better to have a pulldown menu at the end of the url bar to change search engines? I think an separate search bar is archaic. I always just type in whatever I want to search in the url bar.