Is there a way to shorten the urlbar address bar? #1

Scotty_Trees commented 2025年09月19日 19:12:13 +02:00

Greetings!

And thanks for making this super awesome Firefox onebar, it's working great on Firefox v143. I do have one question though, is there a css value I could change to shorten the url/address bar horizontally? You're default value is good, but being on a 1920x1080 laptop, I try to maximize space a bit more if I can. Do you know anything I might be able to adjust with your css code to shorten the address bar? Would greatly appreciate it! My thought was to shorten the address bar by half it's horizontal length and then I think it'd be perfect for me.

Greetings! And thanks for making this super awesome Firefox onebar, it's working great on Firefox v143. I do have one question though, is there a css value I could change to shorten the url/address bar horizontally? You're default value is good, but being on a 1920x1080 laptop, I try to maximize space a bit more if I can. Do you know anything I might be able to adjust with your css code to shorten the address bar? Would greatly appreciate it! My thought was to shorten the address bar by half it's horizontal length and then I think it'd be perfect for me.

LinuxinaBit commented 2025年09月19日 23:58:25 +02:00

Glad you like it <3

You can make the URL bar as small as possible all the time by replacing max(35vw, 588px) with 588px and replacing min(65vw, calc(100vw - 588px)) with calc(100vw - 588px) in the userChrome.css file.
It can be made even smaller by lowering that 588px value, but doing so will likely cause some minor UI issues (on some platforms more than others).

I’ll look into making this the default in the future if I can find a way to make the URL bar expand on click instead of just when it’s typed in.

Glad you like it <3 You can make the URL bar as small as possible all the time by replacing `max(35vw, 588px)` with `588px` and replacing `min(65vw, calc(100vw - 588px))` with `calc(100vw - 588px)` in the userChrome.css file. It can be made even smaller by lowering that 588px value, but doing so will likely cause some minor UI issues (on some platforms more than others). I’ll look into making this the default in the future if I can find a way to make the URL bar expand on click instead of just when it’s typed in.

Scotty_Trees commented 2025年09月20日 00:19:49 +02:00

Thanks very much for the quick reply! I went and adjusted those 588px values, higher and lower than that to see what might work and while it does work to make the address bar longer, it doesn't work well when trying to shorten the address bar to say 388px, the address bar only goes so short under these values before I guess a min is hit, and then the rest of the tab bar falls under the address bar. Here's a screenshot of what that looks like just in case my words fail me.

Thanks very much for the quick reply! I went and adjusted those 588px values, higher and lower than that to see what might work and while it does work to make the address bar longer, it doesn't work well when trying to shorten the address bar to say 388px, the address bar only goes so short under these values before I guess a min is hit, and then the rest of the tab bar falls under the address bar. Here's a screenshot of what that looks like just in case my words fail me.

LinuxinaBit commented 2025年09月20日 02:48:34 +02:00

That’s what I meant by "UI issues." When set to extreme values it gets pretty unusable.
I can’t really do anything about that besides completely redoing Firefox’s UI from scratch, and that was never really the point of this project. I think there are some others out there that do that kind of thing though.

That’s what I meant by "UI issues." When set to extreme values it gets pretty unusable. I can’t really do anything about that besides completely redoing Firefox’s UI from scratch, and that was never really the point of this project. I think there are some others out there that do that kind of thing though.

Scotty_Trees commented 2025年09月20日 03:12:30 +02:00

Oh yeah it's no worries. It was fun testing it out and trying different values out to see the results, definitely a good little learning experience. Even if we can't adjust the address bar to be smaller, your onebar is still a really really good option I think. Feel free to close this issue anytime, and thanks again for your help.

Oh yeah it's no worries. It was fun testing it out and trying different values out to see the results, definitely a good little learning experience. Even if we can't adjust the address bar to be smaller, your onebar is still a really really good option I think. Feel free to close this issue anytime, and thanks again for your help.