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It is very easy to customize the layout of the toolbars in Firefox. You can add or remove buttons, and change their placement. The Firefox windows are individually customizable and have different sets of icons that you can add to or remove from each. If your customizations | It is very easy to customize the layout of the toolbars in Firefox. You can add or remove buttons, and change their placement. The Firefox windows are individually customizable and have different sets of icons that you can add to or remove from each. | ||
==Changes lost on startup== | |||
If your toolbar customizations are lost when you restart Firefox, see [[Corrupt localstore.rdf| this article]]. | |||
==Customizing the toolbar buttons== | ==Customizing the toolbar buttons== | ||
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Some Firefox [[:Category:Extensions (Firefox)|extensions]] provide extra toolbar buttons as part of their functionality. Installing an extension does not automatically put its buttons on the toolbar, however. To add these buttons, you should do as described above for adding buttons to the toolbar. | Some Firefox [[:Category:Extensions (Firefox)|extensions]] provide extra toolbar buttons as part of their functionality. Installing an extension does not automatically put its buttons on the toolbar, however. To add these buttons, you should do as described above for adding buttons to the toolbar. | ||
==Reducing the padding around the toolbars== | ==Reducing the padding around the toolbars - Advanced== | ||
To make the toolbars use less space you can reduce the padding around the buttons. Add the following code to your [[userChrome.css]] file (but note that this may also affect toolbars supplied by extensions). | To make the toolbars use less space you can reduce the padding around the buttons. Add the following code to your [[userChrome.css]] file (but note that this may also affect toolbars supplied by extensions). | ||
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border-top-width: 0 !important; | border-top-width: 0 !important; | ||
} | } | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 02:39, 15 December 2007
It is very easy to customize the layout of the toolbars in Firefox. You can add or remove buttons, and change their placement. The Firefox windows are individually customizable and have different sets of icons that you can add to or remove from each.
Changes lost on startup
If your toolbar customizations are lost when you restart Firefox, see this article.
Customizing the toolbar buttons
To customize a toolbar, open the window that you want to customize, and then go to the "View" menu and select "Toolbars -> Customize"; alternatively, right-click on the toolbar and select "Customize". The Customize Toolbar dialog will then pop up. To remove a button, simply drag it from the toolbar down into the Customize Toolbar dialog. To add a button, drag it up from the Customize Toolbar dialog and place it on the toolbar. If you want, you can even put buttons up on the menu toolbar.
Warning: it is not recommended to remove "Bookmark Toolbar Items" from the toolbars. If you don't need it just hide the Bookmarks Toolbar.
Adding buttons provided by extensions
Some Firefox extensions provide extra toolbar buttons as part of their functionality. Installing an extension does not automatically put its buttons on the toolbar, however. To add these buttons, you should do as described above for adding buttons to the toolbar.
Reducing the padding around the toolbars - Advanced
To make the toolbars use less space you can reduce the padding around the buttons. Add the following code to your userChrome.css file (but note that this may also affect toolbars supplied by extensions).
/* Remove extra padding from the Navigation Bar and other toolbars*/
.toolbarbutton-1, .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button {
padding: 2px 3px !important;
}
.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-1[open="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] {
padding: 4px 1px 1px 4px !important;
}
/* Remove extra padding from the Status Bar,
introduced by the Toolbar enhancements extension */
#tbx-bottom-toolbox {
border-top-width: 0 !important;
}
External links
- Extensions for customizing toolbars: Firefox extensions can provide additional toolbar customizations such as adding more buttons for standard Firefox features or adding multiple Search or Bookmark toolbars:
- The Toolbar Thinger extension lets you add multiple bookmark toolbars and Search Bars as well as other customizations [1]
- The Toolbar Enhancements extension is currently available only for Firefox 1.0.x, but a third-party version for Firefox 1.5 and 2 is available (through a link at the bottom of that developer-oriented page).
