Go Button in Firefox 3
I’ve been playing around with Firefox 3 lately, and so far everything I’ve seen is really good. It kept all that was good about Firefox 2, and added a few nice new features. But there was one thing that needled me a little bit, so I sought out a way to fix it. The issue is that the “Go” button in the Firefox address bar now only appears when you’re typing a new address. Once you arrive at the site, it disappears. I like to have it stick around, since sometimes i use it in a way similar to the Refresh button. So I found the way to make the Go button always visible in Firefox 3. From that site:
First you have to find the folder that holds your current profile. Once you’ve opened it in your favorite file management program look for a directory named
chrome
. If the directory doesn’t exist go ahead and create it and drill down so you’re looking at the directory’s contents.Once you’re in the chrome folder in your current Firefox 3 profile look for a file called
userChrome.css
. Again, if you don’t have a file by that name it’s ok, just go ahead and create a blank text document (text file for the Windows users) and call ituserChrome.css
. Open the file in a plain text editor (Notepad, Gedit, Geany, or whatever you prefer to use for editing text files, as long as it’s not a word processor like Word, WordPad or OpenOffice.org Word Processor). Once the file is open put this in at the end of it:
#urlbar[pageproxystate="valid"] > #urlbar-icons > #go-button { visibility: visible !important;}
Save the file and restart your Firefox 3 beta and voila! The Go button should always be in your Location bar, ready for your use at any time.