711105 - Hiding urlbar in userChrome.css disables back/forward buttons

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jamie Kitson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0
Build ID: 20111206234556

Steps to reproduce:

Added the following to userChrome.css

#urlbar { display: none }


Actual results:

The url bar is hidden, but the forward and back buttons are disabled.


Expected results:

The url bar should be hidden, and the forward and back buttons should still function.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Any reason why you're not using the built-in toolbar customization feature to remove the url bar?

Comment 2

[Jamie Kitson]

You mean right click -> customize? It's for an extension. 

The only way I found to make it work through file manipulation was to remove urlbar-container from nav-bar currentSet in localstore.rdf.

Comment 3

[Kai Hendry]

Attachment: Disabled back/forward buttons

These icons stay disabled when #urlbar is display: none, even though pages have been navigated to.

Comment 4

[Kai Hendry]

I can confirm this issue in FF8 on Archlinux.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1

Comment 5

[Kai Hendry]

Noticed that #urlbar-container { display: none !important; } also breaks the back/forward buttons in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1. :(

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

display:none breaks the location bar's XBL binding. Please use visibility:collapse instead.