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Search Bar in Home Screen

RIPPER
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Hello, I am eyesight impaired. I am having trouble when trying to use the search bar on the home screen. When the search is typed in the home screen it automatically swaps to the ADDRESS BAR SEARCH. The text is so small I cannot see it very well as a result my typos are abundant, very frustrating. Using the home search bar rather than the address bar I can control the size of the text and use it with no problems. At some point this home search bar function changed, I have tried to use the address bar in place of the home search bar but as I said, it is too small to see. It also makes it almost impossible if you want to search a valid link instead of going to the link because the address bar interprets it as a link and just goes to it, also frustrating. I see a lot of talk about this issue but I don't see any final correction. Is there some way someone could put an effort into this issue for us diminished septuagenarian programmers from the days of old? Thanks in advance, Jim

Hello, I am eyesight impaired. I am having trouble when trying to use the search bar on the home screen. When the search is typed in the home screen it automatically swaps to the ADDRESS BAR SEARCH. The text is so small I cannot see it very well as a result my typos are abundant, very frustrating. ''Using the home search bar rather than the address bar I can control the size of the text and use it with no problems.'' At some point this home search bar function changed, I have tried to use the address bar in place of the home search bar but as I said, it is too small to see. It also makes it almost impossible if you want to search a valid link instead of going to the link because the address bar interprets it as a link and just goes to it, also frustrating. I see a lot of talk about this issue but I don't see any final correction. Is there some way someone could put an effort into this issue for us diminished septuagenarian programmers from the days of old? Thanks in advance, Jim

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Hi RIPPER, Try this - Enter about:config in the address bar and press enter. Select "Accept the risk and continue" In the search bar at the top of the page enter -

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar

at the right end of the entry, click the toggle button to change the value to = False Close the tab.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox Configuration Editor for Firefox

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.

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Chosen Solution

Hi RIPPER, Try this - Enter about:config in the address bar and press enter. Select "Accept the risk and continue" In the search bar at the top of the page enter -

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar

at the right end of the entry, click the toggle button to change the value to = False Close the tab.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox Configuration Editor for Firefox

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.

RIPPER
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A big thanks to RobertJ Top 10 Contributor

SO FAST! I can see again. It is certainly my pleasure to catch your attention. I searched and found several other fixes similar to this and I could not get them to work. Excellent explanation and as far as I am concerned it is a true fix. Hopefully the permanent fix ill be to put a radio button in the Settings--->Search area to allow user selection instead of the default of Address Bar.

Thanks again RobertJ,

Jim

user104147805413306348376805769878442569366
user104147805413306348376805769878442569366
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I'm glad to help, Jim.

Happy Surfing!