{"id":29,"date":"2005-01-31T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T20:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-01-31T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T20:03:24","slug":"making-firefox-search-bar-resizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/31\/making-firefox-search-bar-resizable\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Firefox Search Bar Resizable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the Firefox browser (only as a friend) but I hate its search bar.  By default it gets installed right next to the URL address bar on the Navigation toolbar and it's shrunken down to a miniscule, ridiculous size and it doesn't support History.  Needless to say I had to tweak it.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p>What I wanted to do was make the behavior like the Google toolbar on Internet Explorer where the search bar is on its own toolbar and has a history pull-down.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox has some nice toolbar customization but it doesn't allow you to easily change the behavior of the searchbar, you have to go digging through their .jar files and play with some .xul, .xml and .css files.  Mozilla is <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=205011\">aware of this bug\/enhancement request<\/a> but so far we haven't seen a nice fix.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wrote up detailed instructions on how to do this for Firefox 1.0 over here at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightpc.com\/forum\/thread-214.html\">LateNightPC forums<\/a>.  If you have the 0.9 version of Firefox, this tip is slightly easier and I had written it up last year at this older <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightpc.com\/forum\/thread-71.html\">LateNightPC forum thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the Firefox browser (only as a friend) but I hate its search bar. By default it gets installed right next to the URL address bar on the Navigation toolbar and it&#8217;s shrunken down to a miniscule, ridiculous size and it doesn&#8217;t support History. Needless to say I had to tweak it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}