Hello!
Sometimes when I start Firefox the toolbar is compacted, i.e. the icons on the right side of the toolbar are hidden and you have to click on >> to see them:
> https://i.postimg.cc/MTT4ghLT/toolbar-compacted.png
I don't know why Firefox compacts the toolbar as the screen size is quite large and there is enough space to show all icons on the toolbar:
> https://i.postimg.cc/MHy1KGMp/toolbar-expanded.png
I am able to restore the expanded toolbar by invoking the Customize action and then just closing the Customize tab. But after a couple of days I find the toolbar compacted again when I start Firefox. (I regularly close Firefox when I do not use it and I regularly shutdown the PC.)
I'd say I first saw this issue in Firefox Quantum.
Is there an option/preference that could force the toolbar to stay expanded?
System info: Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS 64-bit, Firefox 62.0.3.
-- rpr.
toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
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toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
Last edited by rpremuz on October 21st, 2018, 1:11 pm, edited 3 times in total.
- jscher2000
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Re: toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
The lengths of bars are stored in the xulstore.json file in your profile folder. I can't think of a reason for it to become occasionally corrupted/modified for no reason. The other possible explanation is that Firefox isn't reading it exactly the same way at every startup, which would be strange.
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Re: toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
On the same system I'm using Firefox 67 now but still having this issue.
Today when I started Firefox the toolbar was compacted. The following command showed that the xulstore.json file was last changed two days ago:
Then I expanded the toolbar and closed Firefox. At next run of Firefox the toolbar was expanded but the timestamp of xulstore.json file didn't change.
After a couple of additional restarts of Firefox I again got the toolbar compacted while the timestamp of xulstore.json file was still unchanged.
I'd say that there must be something else that causes this issue.
Any suggestion?
-- rpr.
Today when I started Firefox the toolbar was compacted. The following command showed that the xulstore.json file was last changed two days ago:
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ls -l `find ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ -name xulstore.json`
After a couple of additional restarts of Firefox I again got the toolbar compacted while the timestamp of xulstore.json file was still unchanged.
I'd say that there must be something else that causes this issue.
Any suggestion?
-- rpr.
- dickvl
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Re: toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
Try to rename xulstore.json (xulstoreOLD.json) in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed to make Firefox create a new file.
See the about:support or the about:profiles page for a button to go to the profile folder.
See the about:support or the about:profiles page for a button to go to the profile folder.
- therube
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Re: toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
Are you customizing on your end using .css ?
I'm not even seeing how to force an overflow like you're showing?
Are you sure you're not alternating between two Profiles?
(Though opening Customize & having this "fix" itself would pretty much rule that out.)
I'm not even seeing how to force an overflow like you're showing?
Are you sure you're not alternating between two Profiles?
(Though opening Customize & having this "fix" itself would pretty much rule that out.)
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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Re: toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
I removed xulstore.json file in the Firefox profile and then started/closed Firefox a couple of times. Each time Firefox was open for at least 30 seconds.
While doing the tests, Firefox had the layout I usually use:
- the Sidebar open on the right side with Bookmarks menu in the Sidebar
- multiple tabs open and retained between sessions (8 tabs open in this testing)
- besides the default History, Sidebar and Firefox Account icons, the Toolbar contains 3 additional icons created by the following extensions: ColorZilla, Tab Auto Refresh and NoScript (in the order shown on picture1)
I didn't change the layout in any way while doing the tests.
|-------------------------------- xulstore1.json -------------------------------| |-------------------------------- xulstore2.json -------------------------------|
Despite of that change, Firefox behaved the same: it compacted the toolbar after generating xulstore.json for the first time.
I can restore the toolbar by invoking the Customize action and just closing the Customize tab. But after reopening Firefox, the toolbar is compacted again.
-- rpr.
While doing the tests, Firefox had the layout I usually use:
- the Sidebar open on the right side with Bookmarks menu in the Sidebar
- multiple tabs open and retained between sessions (8 tabs open in this testing)
- besides the default History, Sidebar and Firefox Account icons, the Toolbar contains 3 additional icons created by the following extensions: ColorZilla, Tab Auto Refresh and NoScript (in the order shown on picture1)
I didn't change the layout in any way while doing the tests.
- quit Firefox
delete xulstore.json
start Firefox - toolbar is normal (see picture1)
quit Firefox after 30+ seconds
xulstore.json has 285 bytes, copied to xulstore1.json
start Firefox - toolbar is compacted (see picture2)
quit Firefox after 30+ seconds
xulstore.json has 274 bytes, copied to xulstore2.json
start Firefox - toolbar is compacted
quit Firefox after 30+ seconds
xulstore.json has 285 bytes, diff says it is the same as xulstore1.json
start Firefox - toolbar is compacted
quit Firefox after 30+ seconds
xulstore.json has 274 bytes, diff says it is the same as xulstore2.json
start Firefox - toolbar is compacted
quit Firefox after 30+ seconds
xulstore.json has 285 bytes, diff says it is the same as xulstore1.json
start Firefox - toolbar is compacted
quit Firefox after 30+ seconds
xulstore.json has 274 bytes, diff says it is the same as xulstore2.json
start Firefox - toolbar is compacted
|-------------------------------- xulstore1.json -------------------------------| |-------------------------------- xulstore2.json -------------------------------|
Despite of that change, Firefox behaved the same: it compacted the toolbar after generating xulstore.json for the first time.
I can restore the toolbar by invoking the Customize action and just closing the Customize tab. But after reopening Firefox, the toolbar is compacted again.
-- rpr.
Last edited by rpremuz on June 10th, 2019, 3:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- therube
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Re: toolbar compacted upon starting Firefox (Linux)
(Something about non-ascii names...)
If you remove all the non-default icons, any change?
If you move all the non-default icons - elsewhere (like to the title-bar), any change?
The one is NoScript.
The "pen" & the "C" are ?
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Nightly does not look to use xulstore.json, instead:
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Are xulstore.json/data.mdb the correct files to be looking at?
If you remove all the non-default icons, any change?
If you move all the non-default icons - elsewhere (like to the title-bar), any change?
The one is NoScript.
The "pen" & the "C" are ?
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Nightly does not look to use xulstore.json, instead:
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\FF69\XULSTORE\
data.mdb
lock.mdb
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Are xulstore.json/data.mdb the correct files to be looking at?
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript