Reader Query: Delete A Custom Toolbar In Firefox
One of my regular reader asked me the question as to how to delete a custom toolbar in Firefox. If you have not already read about how you can create a custom toolbar in Firefox, you can do so by reading the post I had written some time back about How To Create a customized toolbar for Firefox.
Getting back to the question Maya Asks me
About Firefox, I do some blogging, and made a new tool bar to use for the blogging related buttons and named it "blog" toolbar. Later on I was able to fit in all my buttons on the regular two toolbars and had no need for this anymore. But there is no option to delete one. I do hide it, but it pops out on every restart of the browser, a blank toolbar taking up precious screen space and I have to hide it again, which is very irritating.
The answer to the question is not pretty straight forward and once again there is no outright way in which you can delete the toolbar. To remove the toolbar completely you have to remove all the buttons from the toolbar one by one from the customized toolbar. Here is a step by step way you can remove a customized toolbar.
I have added a custom toolbar called Reader Query for the purpose. If you want to know more about creating a customized toolbar please read my earlier post on How To Create a customized toolbar for Firefox.
Removing the Customized Toolbar
The first step you will have to undertake is to again choose to customize the toolbar once again. To do this right click anywhere on the Customized toolbar you created and click on the customize option.
Once you have clicked on the customize option you will see a new window popup where you can customize your toolbar. In the custom toolbar Reader Query I have added 5 buttons. To delete the toolbar you will need to drag the button from the customized toolbar back to the popup window, once all the buttons are dragged back click on done. Once you have deleted all the buttons the toolbar will be deleted.
Below is a video tutorial I created, which I am planning to do for all my articles on tips and tricks. Hope it helps you better. The video quality is not the best but I will create much better videos for all future tutorials.
If you do have any questions then feel free to contact us and we will try to help you in the best possible way. Hope this answers your question Maya.
Do let me know your thoughts and comments or questions if any.
Tim Green
January 10th, 2008 at 4:59 am #
Hi, just want to say thanks for the article. I have been having the same problem as Maya for ages, and I was starting to think that I was going to have to live with this toolbar for ages!
Anyway, I followed your comments (I had previously tried this myself), and at first it didn’t work… but then I noticed something I had never noticed before…. there was still a separator in my button-free toolbar! So, I dragged the separator off, and sure enough, when I clicked ‘Done’, my toolbar disappeared!
Just thought it worth mentioning, as I’m sure I’m not the only one who missed that!
Many thanks!
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Manas Reply:
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
This comment helped me out. Thanks a ton.
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benny Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 4:03 am
me too! muchas gracias!
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Steve
February 28th, 2008 at 5:51 pm #
Just to add thanks for this blog, had the same trouble & was stuck with a seperator which I just never noticed until the user aboves comments. Did the trick once it was gone, thanks
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Kelly
March 17th, 2008 at 9:49 pm #
I too created a custom toolbar that I later decided I didn’t want or need. My only problem is I have one last icon & a separator on it that won’t budge when I try to move them. They won’t move to another toolbar or the customise toolbar pop-up window. (I did a google search for this topic and came to this blog.)
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Kelly
March 17th, 2008 at 9:52 pm #
I too created a custom toolbar that I decided I no longer wanted or needed. However, I have one last icon and a separator that seem to be stuck on the toolbar as I can’t drag them off to either another toolbar or the customise toolbar pop-up window.
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TrinitiComm
February 24th, 2009 at 7:24 pm #
Great article. That toolbar was urking the heck out of me.
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Pro
April 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am #
Lol…there was this small lil separator that was trying to spoil my happiness..Thanks a ton
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Abbydon
April 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am #
That separator got me, too! Thanks for the help with that.
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Tony
July 15th, 2009 at 6:55 am #
Thanks for this, always wondered how to delete toolbars.
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Jay
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm #
Dude, thanks for the answer to what has been bugging the crap out of me for the last 3 weeks… couldn’t get it to remove and it was so easy once you gave me the answer.
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