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Asked: 2013-10-09 18:13:33 +0800 CST

Increase size of toolbar and url bar in firefox?

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I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and upgraded my Firefox.

However I would like to increase the size of the "toolbar" & "urlbar" like on Windows.
(The new firefox has big and nice interface to use).

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How ca I do the same on Ubuntu?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can try to edit/create the userChrome.css inside of the chrome folder in your profile.

    1) Close Firefox

    2) Go to the firefox folder in you home. Open a Terminal and type:

    • cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/

    3) find out the name of your profile folder.

    eg: the default profile name is xxxxxxxx.default (where "x" are letters).
    My case is dfafal1w.default

    • ls -l

    The result:

    drwx------ 5 virtual virtual 4096 Oct  4 17:33 dfafal1w.default

    4) Go to your profile folder.

    • cd xxxxxxxx.default

    where "x" are your profile letters.

    5) find if your have a chrome folder and the userChrome.css file

    • ls -l chrome/userChrome.css

    6) if you have the file.. edit it with:

    • gedit chrome/userChrome.css

    Add the following lines to the end:

    #urlbar {
min-height: 50px !important;
        }

    In this example I will set the minimum height of the urlbar to 50px. (Feel free to change it according to your needs)

    7) if you do not have the file and the folder... create them.

    • mkdir chrome
    • cd chrome

    8) Create the userChrome.css and set the minimum height urlbar (my case 50px).

    cat > userChrome.css << EOF
#urlbar {
min-height: 50px !important;
        }
EOF

    9) Open Firefox to see the changes...

    BEFORE:

    enter image description here

    AFTER:

    enter image description here

    NOTE:If you want the search bar in the same height of the urlbar... just add the following to the userChrome.css file.

    #searchbar, .searchbar-textbox {
min-height: 50px !important;
        }

    Hope this helps.

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