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I don't see myself switching away from Firefox any time soon but the "megabar" fiasco really rubs me the wrong way and I hope it isn't indicative of their direc

I don't see myself switching away from Firefox any time soon but the "megabar" fiasco really rubs me the wrong way and I hope it isn't indicative of their direction going forward. In the past when Firefox has changed default behavior there's almost always a way to revert the changes. They move tabs to the title bar to match Chrome, I change an option that puts them back where I like them. They auto hide the bookmark toolbar, I re-enable it. With the latest Firefox release I've yet to find an easy way to disable the godawful, distracting zoom effect for the URL bar. The about:config options that used to work no longer do. I really hope they reverse course and give us a straightforward way to disable it.

MasterYoda 6y ago
Im not sure about what you mean with distracting zoom effect. Anyways, it is possible to go back to the old "awesomebar" [1]. 1. Visit about:config 2. Find and change the value of following preferences to false browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus browser.urlbar.update1 browser.urlbar.update1.interventions browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips [1] https://techdows.com/2019/10/mozilla-enables-megabar-design-for-address-bar-in-firefox-71-nightly.html https://techdows.com/2019/10/mozilla-enables-megabar-design-...
- MrMember 6y ago
  As of the latest Firefox release that no longer works.