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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Getting rid of the search bar in Firefox

Do you know how Mozilla makes money? Every time you use the Google Search Bar at the top right hand corner of the Firefox browser and click one of the sponsored links (Google Ads), Mozilla gets a cut. It is rumoured that Mozilla made something to the tune of 72 million in 2005.

I'm not against them making money or anything. I just like a clean browser. Everything ought to be useful, and the search bar isn't for me as I do my searches through the address bar. I already have keywords for all my favourite searches. So I removed it.

1. Right-click the menu bar > Customize
Drag the search bar into the box that popped up.

It's that easy.

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