1655453 - Please bring back the old bar; remove the terrible megabar implementation that everyone hates.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1585912

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2020-07-27 09-03-00.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Searched for a while online, later realizing that it isn't possible in about:config anymore.

Actual results:

Mozilla decided to implement a "feature" that would make the URL bar grow when pressed, which would result in the userbase for disliking it. And then, Mozilla decided to remove that option completely, even though many users wanted it back and were complaining.

I checked on the "Additional Details" box, but I did not get an additional box in which I can write, so forgive me for making this box too long.

Here are some sources of people either wanting the old URL bar back, or complaining about it, or both:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/f29syp/how_to_disable_the_new_megabar/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/fxez4e/remove_new_megabar_grow_shrink_effect/
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1274579https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fybcw5/megabar_is_back_again_how_to_disable_this_time/
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fybcw5/megabar_is_back_again_how_to_disable_this_time/fn078g6

Expected results:

It should remove the new design in favor to the older one.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[TheEvilSkeleton]

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:sylvestre / :calixte / :marco for bugbug] from comment #1)

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Is it talking to me? I really can't tell what they are talking about.

Comment 4

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Hi, I was looking at my bugs filed and came across this one. I sincerely apologize for my poor behavior.