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Removing the ‘Go’ button in Firefox 2

Among the changes in Firefox 2 is that the ‘Go’ button is now attached to the address bar, when customizing toolbars. Some Firefox users may prefer not to display the ‘Go’ button, because they use the |Enter| key, or use the Paste and Go 2 extension.

You can get rid of the ‘Go’ button by entering about:config in the address bar. In the resulting page, search for the preference browser.urlbar.hideGoButton.
Double-click on it, which should change the value to true.

Posted by Chris Ilias on Wednesday, December 13, 2006, at 7:07 pm. Filed under Firefox, Mozilla. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Fred | December 13, 2006 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

    The “go” button never made much sense to me since you already have your fingers on the keyboard when typing the address and you can just as well hit the Enter button then. But apparently, some people are lost without it, so I guess it’s good to have it there as a default.

    Thanks for mentioning how to get rid of it ;)

  2. dolphinling | December 13, 2006 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

    Unfortunately, those of us who want to move it instead of remove it need an extension to do the job. :(

  3. Henrik Nyström | December 14, 2006 at 1:16 am | Permalink

    Great! Now if one could just find the “hideSearchGoButton” configuration… :)

  4. Peter Kasting | December 14, 2006 at 1:17 am | Permalink

    You’re 2 for 2 in publishing Fx2 about:config entries I worked on! Keep going! :D

  5. JRELLAND | December 14, 2006 at 2:39 am | Permalink

    Thank you
    Very useful for me

  6. steve | December 16, 2006 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    When I select a site from the dropdown, I have to push enter or Go. It used to load automatically in FF1.
    Any ideas?

    Steve

  7. nathan | February 24, 2007 at 6:21 pm | Permalink

    Found this very handy. Thanks!

  8. Really Bad Credit | December 24, 2008 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, super Handy, thanks! Go button was really frustrating me. Now if I can only remove that new wikisearch google through up, thats my new most hated unwanted upgrade.

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