Firefox: How to force address bar to expand/wrap over several lines so can see whole URL?

Add this code:

#urlbar *,
#FindToolbar *,
#search-container * { font-size:11pt !important; }

#urlbar .textbox-input-box,
#search-container .textbox-input-box, 
#FindToolbar .textbox-input-box
 { font-size:12pt !important; font-family:"DejaVu Sans Mono"; }

to the userChrome.css file which is located in the chrome folder in your Profile folder (for more information on how to get there go to Editing configuration).

If there is no chrome folder in your Profile folder, create a folder named chrome and create a plain text file inside the folder named userChrome.css.

You can also stretch the address bar by customizing the toolbar: re-sizing the Search Bar, thus making the address bar longer, and removing unneeded buttons or bookmarks from the toolbar to make more space for the address bar.

amiregelz

Posted 2012-07-30T14:27:00.747

Reputation: 6 965

I've just tried this but it only seems to set the font and size. Long URLs are still truncated. – Umber Ferrule – 2012-07-31T12:57:47.393

Try this (in the userChrome.css file): `To increase the status bar height, enter the following code exactly after the opening lines: /* change status toolbar height and font */ #status-bar { height: (new number) px !important GO }

To make the status bar noticeably larger, you will need to choose a number larger than 25 pixels.`

2012-07-31T13:12:52.853

Just tried the height:50px trick and it does increase height, but the text doesn't wrap (even with white-space:normal or pre-line). Maybe the text box is resolutely single line and not meant to wrap... :\ – Umber Ferrule – 2012-07-31T14:12:21.180

Then I guess that the text box cannot be customized, despite the "customize Firefox pretty much any way you like!" motto...(on second thought they did say "pretty much"). Have you tried looking for other browsers that might allow customizing the address bar text box? Also, how important is it for you to see the whole URL? – amiregelz – 2012-07-31T14:21:50.683

I was hoping to find a solution with Firefox. It's not the end of the world, but I know I could be more productive if I didn't have to mouse and keyboard to see the end of the URL. Alt-D and End will have to do. Cheers for trying to figure this one out. – Umber Ferrule – 2012-08-01T14:51:36.027

I've looked for a way to make Firefox show the last part of the URL instead of this first part (i.e show o.com/userID=1234567 instead of www.foo.com/userID=123, as it would've been sufficient, but I couldn't find any way to achieve something like that. – amiregelz – 2012-08-01T15:54:42.313

Firefox: How to force address bar to expand/wrap over several lines so can see whole URL?

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