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WaltS  
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 More options Nov 7 2012, 8:11 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.support.firefox
From: WaltS <wls15...@REMOVEyahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:11:53 -0500
Local: Wed, Nov 7 2012 8:11 am
Subject: Re: Why does it "protect" right part of add-on bar not allowing me to customize icons
On 11/07/2012 07:57 AM, V S Rawat wrote:

> On 11/7/2012 6:22 PM, WaltS wrote:
>> On 11/07/2012 07:40 AM, V S Rawat wrote:
>>> On 11/7/2012 2:54 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
>>>> "V S Rawat" wrote:

>>>>> When I click customize, I find ff putting a zebra blockade on part of
>>>>> add on toolbar at bottom, not allowing me to customize icons there?

>>>> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-bar-quick-access-to-add-on...

>>>> My guess is you installed an add-on that wants to show its icon in the
>>>> old status bar that is no longer present.  I have Fiddler2 installed and
>>>> when I customize it has the zebra bar you mention which makes its icon
>>>> unmovable within the add-on toolbar.  Fiddler2 has the option of not
>>>> showing its statusbar icon or you can edit is fiddlerhook.js file to
>>>> delete or comment out:

>>>>      pref("extensions.fiddlerhook.showstatusbar", true);

>>>>    From what I see in its firefoxOverlay.xul file, it looks like
>>>> Fiddler is
>>>> creating a statusbar extension (not a button to the add-on toolbar):

>>>>      <!--
>>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_a_dynamic_status_bar_extension
>>>> -->
>>>>      <statusbar id="status-bar">
>>>>        <statusbarpanel id="status-bar-panel-FiddlerHook"
>>>>            label="FiddlerHook"
>>>>            tooltiptext="Fiddler"
>>>>            popup="fiddlerHookStatusMenu"
>>>>            context="fiddlerHookStatusMenu"
>>>>        />
>>>>      </statusbar>

>>>> Read:
>>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Creating_a_dynamic_status_ba...

>>>> So what you are trying to drag (the zebra barred section) is not in the
>>>> add-on toolbar.  Fiddler probably tries to encompass support for
>>>> multiple versions of Firefox so it still employs a statusbar icon.  You
>>>> never identified what icons you see that are zebra barred.

>>>> <snipped the rant>

>>> my zebra bar covered icons are ghostery, securelogin, go top/bottom,
>>> screengrab, lazarus

>>> how do I find which of these has put that zebra bar, and how to remove
>>> zebra bar.

>>> for that matter, I wanted go top bottom icons on the navigation bar at
>>> top, not here at the addon bar.

>>> --
>>> If a single addon has added the zebra bar protection, why is it
>>> protecting other addons' icons there?

>>> Thanks.

>> Firefox Code is providing the Zebra bar. It is called the Add-ons bar
>> for a reason. It is where icons for extensions go.

>> Icons from the Customize window like Cut, Copy, Paste, etc. are not
>> allowed to be placed there.

> I have already put icons for "Cut, Copy, Paste, etc. " in add on bar,
> and nothing stopped me.

> and all three are working well from addon bar itself.

> What is problem in putting them there? I would like to put my icons
> wherever it was convenient to me to access them.

I guess I should have tested that. Apologies, and thanks for teaching me
something new.

> for the original problem, now I want go top/bottom addon's three icons
> to get removed from under the zebra, and go to navigation bar. how
> should I do that?

What is go top/bottom? An extension? Does it have a preferences button
in Add-ons manager that you can change where the icons are placed?

> I just want to disable zebra bar. how to do that?

I don't want to disable it, and don't know.

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