Firefox 59 Released

[Puffnstuff]

I've been having issues with FF not logging into certain sites including best buy so I rolled back to 59.0.3, cleared my cashe and tried it again with the same results. If I use IE 11 everything works fine so something is definitely amiss here.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Did you try a new profile or another computer? That is kind of strange.. maybe your FF profile has something wrong with it?

 

[Puffnstuff]

I used FF from my tablet and I was able to sign in then I logged out and tried it again from my desktop and it went through after forcing me to go through a verification check. Perhaps I should uninstall FF then manually delete the directory and then reinstall.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes, sometimes that is the best way - manually removing all profiles and other folders first and reinstalling. I had to do that after accidentally deleting bookmarks and also to fix odd problems before and it usually works great.

 

[JujuFish]

If you mean the search box it's in the customise UI so it can easily be added.

I mean the old search bar, the one that actually has decent functionality. It used to be the setting 'browser.search.showOneOffButtons' in about:config.

 

[Ketchup]

I am just wondering how many more versions until FF learns how to spell. I stopped holding my breath years ago, but c'mon Mozilla.

 

[mikeymikec]

I mean the old search bar, the one that actually has decent functionality. It used to be the setting 'browser.search.showOneOffButtons' in about:config.

Ok, there's the address bar and the search box. Are you talking about a previous design of the address bar or the search box? If you're talking about the search box, it's still there (either addable to the toolbar or there by default, I don't remember). If it's the address bar, I don't know exactly what functionality you're looking for.

@Ketchup - eh?

 

[Beer4Me]

FYI, Firefox 60.0 dropped today.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

 

[JujuFish]

Ok, there's the address bar and the search box. Are you talking about a previous design of the address bar or the search box? If you're talking about the search box, it's still there (either addable to the toolbar or there by default, I don't remember). If it's the address bar, I don't know exactly what functionality you're looking for.

@Ketchup - eh?

I'm referring to the search bar (or box, as you seem to prefer) as seen here:

It was replaced in Firefox 30-something with the following, a significantly worse version:

For a while, you could get the original by setting 'browser.search.showOneOffButtons' to false in about:config. They removed that option in.. early 40-something, though addons could still bring back similar functionality, and then Firefox Quantum removed even that possibility. The Australis interface was bad enough, but removing the search bar is just too much.

And as for the address bar, if I meant address bar I would have said it.

 

[Ketchup]

I have no idea what is worse about it. Set my fault search provider, done.

 

[mikeymikec]

I have no idea what is worse about it. Set my fault search provider, done.

I suppose with jujufish's point his intention is to be able to quickly switch between multiple providers, which a) would logically be a smidgen quicker with the old system (not so far to travel with the mouse) and b) makes it easier to switch between more than say 6 search providers. I'm a one-search-engine kind of person though, hence me not even being vaguely aware of the change (I don't have the search box on my toolbar, I just use the address bar for search engine queries), and wondering whether he was talking about the address bar (as I use it for both), as I recall there being some ire about a change to the address bar functionality some years back.

@JujuFish
I imagine Seamonkey has stuck with the old functionality, though admittedly I have found Seamonkey to be a bit buggy in the not-so-recent past so I could understand you not wanting to change over to it.