Firefox extension: Hide Find Bar
I created the Hide Find Bar extension earlier this year as a means of getting rid of the find bar without any hassle. I often found myself browsing, using the find feature, finding what I want and continuing to read, later finding the bar still open but having no purpose. I am also a real estate whore, I try to maximize the space I have for viewing websites, so this seemed like an ideal task for me to get my feet wet in the extension business for Firefox, something I’ve wanted to do for a while.
I recently updated the extension to fix a couple bugs, and with the moving of my new site lost all the history (forgot to zip it up.) So it’s now at it’s new home and on a rather unappealing webpage right now (I’ll make it look pretty one of these days I promise.) If you have any suggestions or comments please feel free.
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August 3rd, 2006 at 11:03 am
Is it possible to make it hide the find bar when it loses focus, i.e. the same way / works?
August 4th, 2006 at 9:18 am
As soon as it loses focus as opposed to an interval? Yes it’s possible, I’ll add that functionality to the next iteration of the HFB.
April 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Hi Jared,
Thanks for this extension, it’s doing exactly what I need.
I’m running Firefox 2.0.0.3 under Ubuntu 7.04.
I want to disable the status bar icon, but it keeps reappearing when I restart Firefox.
I’m just wondering if it is Firefox 2.x compliant.
Thanks !
Seb
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Thanks for the feedback Seb, I’ve fixed the bug causing the Status bar icon preference not to persist between sessions, you should just be able to update through Firefox or you can get the current version from http://hidefindbar.jaredmcateer.com
The Hide Find Bar extension is compatible with all versions of 1.5 and 2.0. It will probably work in older versions as well as 3.0 but haven’t tested it yet.