Quick Tip: Turn off Firefox Go Button
The "Go" button in Firefox is rarely used and takes up space on the screen, although not all that much. If you want, you can easily disable it to give your address bar more room.
Notice the little green useless button on the right side.
Just type in about:config into the address bar, and then filter by the following value:
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton
Just double-click on the value in the list to change it to true. The green button should instantly disappear, as you can see in the screenshot.
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Eh?. I don't get it. Is it really going to give extra space?. There? for what? to write a longer web dir by hand?. um.
By the way, I didn't know about about:config, which is good.
Miguel, I bet you don't get it.
Th "Go" button is pretty useless as you can simply push the enter key, and many firefox users have lots of really useful buttons in the toolbar (donwloadhelper, recently closed tabs, del.icio.is….). I found the tip very useful.
Obviously, none of you lie in bed propping your head up with one hand, moving your pointer with the free hand, right clicking to copy and paste, using the keyboard as little as possible because it requires holding your head up by itself. Shocking to me that the go button would be considered useless.
i have a problem with firefox in my computer. my computer's Javascript was turned-off as soon as firefox was installed in my computer.
Furthermore, I can't download the adobe flash player because of firefox, they ask me to close firefox first can't close it. so i don't know what
I absolutely have to disagree and have to deplore that there can't be a go button t/t left of the search bar.
I don't know how some of you work, buy if I type I do it with both hands. The rest of the time I scroll or use the mouse with my right hand. Now very often I copy/paste an url adress from a website > I do this with my right hand and the mouse. I paste it in the url bar. Now if I want to hit enter because there's NO go button I have to use my right hand which just did a copy/pasting with the mouse. I now have to use my right hand and leave the mouse to hit the enter button. If there was a go button t/t right of the adress bar I could go on for very long without ever having to touch the keyboard. Exactly the same goes for the search bar. Remember while surfing you rarely use the keyboard (I don't anyway)
Thanks! Very good tip, saved me a lot of time when I was asked to "patch Firefox" to enable the Go button.