Blue Block Under Address Bar When Doing Searches

[Michael]

OK , I recently reinstalled Firefox with the dark scheme. On startup the
"new tab" is shown blue in colour is that right ?

Also when starting to write a web address in address bar a blue strip
appears underneath with a magnifying glass asking to do a search. Is it
possible to completely remove the blue band from appearing under the
address bar ?

Michael

[B00ze]

On 2017-10-21 12:15, Michael <notathere@.com> wrote:

> OK , I recently reinstalled Firefox with the dark scheme. On startup the
> "new tab" is shown blue in colour is that right ?

No idea.

> Also when starting to write a web address in address bar a blue strip
> appears underneath with a magnifying glass asking to do a search. Is it
> possible to completely remove the blue band from appearing under the
> address bar ?

I use Classic Theme Restorer, if I recall, to get rid of that, but that
wont work for very long...

Regards,

--
! _\|/_ Sylvain / B00...@hotmail.com
! (o o) Member:David-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society
oO-( )-Oo JUST DISCOVERED - Research causes cancer in rats!

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message
<mailman.1467.150882191...@lists.mozilla.org>, B00ze

<B00...@hotmail.com> writes:
>On 2017-10-21 12:15, Michael <notathere@.com> wrote:
>
>> OK , I recently reinstalled Firefox with the dark scheme. On startup the
>> "new tab" is shown blue in colour is that right ?
>
>No idea.
>
>> Also when starting to write a web address in address bar a blue strip
>> appears underneath with a magnifying glass asking to do a search. Is it
>> possible to completely remove the blue band from appearing under the
>> address bar ?
>
>I use Classic Theme Restorer, if I recall, to get rid of that, but that
>wont work for very long...
>
>Regards,
>

ISTR there was a setting that allowed you to limit search function to
just the search box, not the URL (address) box - it might even have let
you not have the search box if you didn't want one, though that might
not be the case.

I can't remember if that setting is a basic Firefox setting, or was part
of some add-on: it isn't CTR, as I don't have that. (Any signs of a WE
replacement for CTR?)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"EARTH is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can." - Fortunes file

[B00ze]

On 2017-10-24 07:02, J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JP...@255soft.uk> wrote:

>> [snip]

>>> Also when starting to write a web address in address bar a blue strip
>>> appears underneath with a magnifying glass asking to do a search. Is it
>>> possible to completely remove the blue band from appearing under the
>>> address bar ?
>>
>> I use Classic Theme Restorer, if I recall, to get rid of that, but
>> that wont work for very long...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> ISTR there was a setting that allowed you to limit search function to
> just the search box, not the URL (address) box - it might even have let
> you not have the search box if you didn't want one, though that might
> not be the case.

Thanks for reminding me, especially for the OP.

We used to have this ->
user_pref("browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete", false);

But it has been replaced with this,
Michael, try this in your user.js or in about:config ->

user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.userMadeSearchSuggestionsChoice", true);

> I can't remember if that setting is a basic Firefox setting, or was part
> of some add-on: it isn't CTR, as I don't have that. (Any signs of a WE
> replacement for CTR?)

It will take time. Right now the best we can do is use UserChrome, but
Mozilla is very slowly thinking about various APIs that will let Web
Extensions change /some/ Chrome (e.g. I read somewhere talk of letting
changes to scrollbars). See here for UserChrome stuff you can do:

https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/1

Best Regards,

--
! _\|/_ Sylvain / B00...@hotmail.com
! (o o) Member:David-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society

oO-( )-Oo Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!