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After updating to version 9.0,Why is the text in the Awesome Bar greyed out and some of the text is black?

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Some of the text is greyed out in the Awesome Bar,this page is greyed out except for mozilla.org is in black. It does this to every page.

Some of the text is greyed out in the Awesome Bar,this page is greyed out except for mozilla.org is in black. It does this to every page.

Modified by lkshapiro

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The new behavior beginning in Firefox 7 is to highlight the domain (i.e., mozilla.org) in the Location/URL/Address bar for easier identification.

Users can revert to the old behavior by setting browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to false in about:config

  1. type about:config in the Location/URL/Address bar and press the Enter key
  2. if you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
  3. Filter = browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled
  4. double-click on the pref in the lower panel to toggle it to "false" OR right-click on the pref in the lower panel and choose "Toggle" to toggle it to "false"
  5. close the about:config tab


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Not related to your question, but...

You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:

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Chosen Solution

The new behavior beginning in Firefox 7 is to highlight the domain (i.e., mozilla.org) in the Location/URL/Address bar for easier identification.

Users can revert to the old behavior by setting browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to false in about:config

  1. type about:config in the Location/URL/Address bar and press the Enter key
  2. if you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
  3. Filter = browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled
  4. double-click on the pref in the lower panel to toggle it to "false" OR right-click on the pref in the lower panel and choose "Toggle" to toggle it to "false"
  5. close the about:config tab


If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.



Not related to your question, but...

You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:

Modified by SafeBrowser