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How can you revert Firefox 48 awesome bar to pre 48 style?

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The url bar behavior changed inserting unwanted text eg. -Visit - Search and changed the way the results are presented eg. bigger text on page title, focus on page title instead of URL etc Expected results: I would have expected to have the same url bar as in previous FF versions..

So how do I get the URL / Address bar back to pre 49 style and function?

The url bar behavior changed inserting unwanted text eg. -Visit - Search and changed the way the results are presented eg. bigger text on page title, focus on page title instead of URL etc Expected results: I would have expected to have the same url bar as in previous FF versions.. So how do I get the URL / Address bar back to pre 49 style and function?

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You can remove the top line using a custom style rule, for example:

https://userstyles.org/styles/122394/url-bar-tweaks-remove-visit-search-scroll-bar

However, I don't know whether custom style rules can change the layout from one line back to two lines or affect the order of the text.

There is a beta version of the Classic Theme Restorer extension which reverts the layout of the bar (see attached screenshot), or if you wait a day or two, a single-purpose fix might appear.

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OK. Using the classic theme restorer is a bit better but the search and visit crap is still there and its still "styled" and not a basic txt list like it was before v48.

https://snag.gy/kamPiJ.jpg

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By "styled" do you mean the fonts changed? They did change. It's too late tonight for me to work on hacking that.

For the Visit/Search item, please see my previous mention of a user style to hide that.

I haven't tested my user style with the CTR version of the drop-down. You might want to choose Firefox 43-47 when setting up the style instead of Firefox 48.