Thank You! Avoid support scams. Is removal of this button an already-made design choice for Firefox that will stay with us for the next versions? If you enable or don't configure this setting, employees can see the Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge. The list I used to get when I clicked the arrow is a different list than what shows when I click directly in the address bar. You could take a look at its features and limitations and see whether it could work for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-history-top-sites-button/, Modified June 8, 2020 at 7:37:06 PM PST by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer, Cspsound, I agree. There must some new, updated instructions on how to delete unwanted web addresses from the drop-down list. For all I can see the purpose for the address bar growing and casting the shadow is for it to steal focus, and it works. I expanded the Top Sites to display 2 rows or 16 sites & there is no way some of those listed are more popular than other websites I frequently visit. Select "Manage Search Engines" from the drop-down list. All of the recently workarounds from the past month no longer work for me in FireFox 77.01 and now I'm stuck with a rather new looking but dud URLbar. (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste URLB and pause while the list is filtered My browser experience is completely broke without it. As an alternative, I created an extension that adds a button to the main toolbar (it can't integrate into the old location). Neither works. Linux (Arch); FF 66.0.2 As you type into the address bar, Firefox may offer relevant site suggestions, such as websites from your browsing history, bookmarks and open tabs, to help you quickly and easily navigate the web. Portions of this content are 19982023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Once you add the new Top Site, it is pinned to the page. When you are using a search shortcut, the keyword suggestions come from the chosen search engine. At the top right, click Settings. Address bar suggestions. (The reason I didn't put the button inside the address bar with the "Page Actions" icons is that section is not displayed when the bar is empty and your cursor is inside it, for example, on a new tab.) Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. '''*** UPDATED FOR FIREFOX 78 ***''' Weren't we also able to scroll down and see more sites when we had the drop-down? Now I have to do a bunch of workarounds to get an experience that only approximates it. Your top sites are those you visit the most (a combination of your most recently and frequently visited sites), as well as the sites youve pinned. Visit Mozilla Corporations not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. Can I customize the "top sites"? The overgrown address bar also casts a very large shadow obscuring the bookmarks. I find it strange that the profiles that were previously modified to display the drop down no longer do. (B) Use the spacebar trick discussed earlier. this last post is the one that fixed it for me thanks for coming back and responding about it. * Top Sites enabled: the automatic list is the first 8 top sites from the new tab page, which you can customize to your liking by pinning/unpinning/adding/removing sites (see [[Customize the New Tab page]]) And that's better? Now I have to visit the page to check.). Note: if you want to return "View Image Info" to your menu, here's the preference for that (Firefox 89+): In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. ''
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'' (Edit: Updated first screenshot). Search over 14 million words and phrases in more than 510 language pairs. I did now change the options for my "top sites" to be 2 rows instead of 1 row; that added more sites to my new tab page, but they still don't show up when I click the address bar. If Firefox is not showing any matches as you type, make sure you have those turned on as described in the "How can I control what results the address bar shows me?" 1) In the dropdown, use the arrow keys to select the old history item, and use Del key 2) Copy the new url and paste it into location bar, and go there (do that 3 times) 3) Change the bookmark. You can initiate a history search by typing a caret '^' in the location bar. I have been using Firefox for years and this has never happened after an upgrade.