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whenever I search ff puts a little green ball next to the site and asks me to add it to search. how do I turn this off permanently?

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right now, when it shows the little green ball next to the site name I add it to ff's search area in Options to make the green nag go away and then I uncheck the site so it doesn't use it. this is INCREDIBLY tedious and dumb. this is not a feature, but rather a pita. if I wanted these sites I would have already put them in the search area of Options. please PLEASE tell me there is a way to make this unfortunate ff non-feature go away. thank you.

right now, when it shows the little green ball next to the site name I add it to ff's search area in Options to make the green nag go away and then I uncheck the site so it doesn't use it. this is INCREDIBLY tedious and dumb. this is not a feature, but rather a pita. if I wanted these sites I would have already put them in the search area of Options. please PLEASE tell me there is a way to make this unfortunate ff non-feature go away. thank you.

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You can't.

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Is this about the green dot you see in the search bar on the Navigation Toolbar (i.e. not the location bar or a search bar in the browsing area) when the web page ofers a search engine like this forum ?

Can you attach a screenshot ?


You can possibly use code in userChrome.css to hide the green dot attached to the magnifier icon in the search bar.

Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.


@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */


.searchbar-search-button[addengines="true"] > .searchbar-search-icon-overlay {
display: none !important;
}

See:

In Firefox 69 and later you need to set this pref to true on the about:config page to enable userChrome.css and userContent.css in the chrome folder.

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yes, that's what I'm talking about. thanks for the recommendations to fix it. I'll give them a try and report back.