If the address bar and search bar are side by side with nothing in between, when you hover the mouse pointer over that gap, it should turn into a double-headed resizing arrow so you can steal some width from the address bar and allocate it to the search bar.

Does that work?

Hmm, however, if there is a large "flexible space" in between them, you may need to remove that first. Using the Customize tab, you can drag it off the toolbar. See: Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.

Yes, Thanks! I had to remove the refresh page icon temporarily but all is good now.

As it turns out for some reason on portable apps version of FF57 the search box isn't shown at all! I had to edit the @$)(*!@ bar just to get it.

FYI: before any of you go "oh you can just search from the omni" or what ever you call it .. its very simple.. I have something on my screen right now, I would do CTRL D tab over to the search bar, TYPE what I wanna search for then hit new tab and what I typed would be carried OVER into that new tab so I can start the search.

Not having the search option displayed means I've got to move from the tab I'm in, first, and that's not how it works if what I'm seeing ON the page is what lead me to needing to search.

if this is just PortableApp's version causing this as a default ... ok but if its the default for Moz. FF in its infinite discard everything else the less noob user needs, then its just one more nail in the coffin.

Hi TreborG2, I think Firefox 57 defaults to not displaying the separate search bar. They added an extra way to turn the bar on/off on the Options/Preferences page, Search panel.

jscher2000 said

Hi TreborG2, I think Firefox 57 defaults to not displaying the separate search bar. They added an extra way to turn the bar on/off on the Options/Preferences page, Search panel.

well I guess thats just one more nail in the FF coffin. I've already set Pale Moon as my default browser because of the security issues when using the last 45.9 ESR version of the browser which supports NPAPI and does all I want with plugins..

It really bothers me that people there at mozilla/ff don't get that their bs is just wrong.

PaleMoon is a FF fork, running 64 bit, 100 times faster than FF was under the NPAPI .. and yes.. I've seen the new one is super fast .. but it lost *ALL* of the additional functionality that made me choose Firefox over IE, and kept over Chrome.

1) proper status bar 2) plugins that I could put in said status bar

Add to this the security posturing they've done and STILL are wrong on ..

what's more secure .. requiring a user to check a box that says "Store permanently" or auto-selecting that "store permanently" box so the user doesn't have to and can just say "ok" to adding exceptions?

And how is it that the teams there think they are god and know EVERYONE else shouldn't accept certain types of certs regardless of where and how they were created or known by local users in an environment to be manually trust-able. ... this regard I'm talking about Dell and their iDrac on private IP networks with invalid (or old or weak cipher) where no public unknown user is ever allowed to get to .. but as an Admin I have to go working with more than 10000 servers at any given point in time?

These are the reasons FF has gone down hill with the community that knows what their doing ..

And this UI change .. just another "turned off because 'we moz devs don't use it" ..

stupid .. very very very stupid of the Devs

Hi TreborG2, here in support we work with the Firefox we have today, which it sounds as though you do not use, so there's nothing we can do for you.

You can share your feelings on other sites such as

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/

or provide feedback to Mozilla at

https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/

And how is it that the teams there think they are god and know EVERYONE else shouldn't accept certain types of certs regardless of where and how they were created or known by local users in an environment to be manually trust-able. ... this regard I'm talking about Dell and their iDrac on private IP networks with invalid (or old or weak cipher) where no public unknown user is ever allowed to get to .. but as an Admin I have to go working with more than 10000 servers at any given point in time?

If the problem is with self-signed certificates, you can try the workaround of setting security.enterprise_roots.enabled = true.

If the problem is with "old or weak ciphers", you can try using Internet Explorer 11 with those systems.

It's frustrating when your hardware vendor ends firmware and management console updates and your software vendors move on, but Firefox is designed first and foremost for the web.