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.
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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!
This comment helped me out. Thanks a ton. :)
me too! muchas gracias!
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 :-)
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.)
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.
Great article. That toolbar was urking the heck out of me.
Lol…there was this small lil separator that was trying to spoil my happiness..Thanks a ton
That separator got me, too! Thanks for the help with that. :-)
Thanks for this, always wondered how to delete toolbars.
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.
thanks my friend!!!!! One less small headache bugging me now that the silly toolbar I wanted gone is history….
My problem is that I created the toolbar but never populated it at all. So. No icons to delete but the toolbar remains. I can, of course, not show it but when I boot up, there it is in all its empty glory. I suspect I need to get into the config scripty stuff. Thoughts? Thanks.
Awk! Never mind. This is not an issue. There was a sneaky separator up there. I got rid of it as Keith directed, and – lo and behold – the toolbar did indeed disappear. Please disregard my previous comment. Sorry.
Had the same problem. I just saw the "separator solution", and I'm guessing that was my problem. What I did was to just hit the Restore Default Set button. Warning: "Default Set" means all custom Toolbars will be gone.
Well I wanted to say that after weeks of reading page after page of faq's on the Mozilla website on this matter. I decided to just type it in a search engine and well you know the results, I was lead here, followed the simple instructions and no more toolbar. Thanks again for your expertise in things we all want to know but just do not know who to ask. We know now, huh?
@Donovon – Glad you found a solution for your problem. We are here to help, so feel free to drop in your questions to us through the contact form the next time you land into a problem with your PC :-)
Thanks for this article, it was a great help. Even though at first it didn't work for me at all.
My toolbar kept coming back even though there were no buttons on it. Turns out I had a sneaky separator still sitting on it. Once that was removed, the bar was gone!
You are a champ in recommending how to do it……You were the 5th Google hit and all hits before you were BOGUS.
You are #1 in my book…….I had nothing in my toolbar except for one 'separator' which appears as a small vertical line on left most side of the screen……As soon as I pulled it back it was GONE! CAPUT! VANISHED!
Thank you so much.
Kenny
It really is simple to remove your toolbar. Just go in under tools and then your addons and remove what tool bars you don't want anymore..simple!
One word… thanks.
I was so glad when I found your sugestion, as I have this problem – but unfortunately it doesn't work for me.
And I have been looking all over the unwanted toolbar to see the seprator (mostly on the left hand on it), and even tried to put in som more icons and then try to see it – but there is no seperator or anything on the toolbar.
And it doesn't go away!
So is there any other way to get it out of the system (tweaking a file or something)?
I had a toolbar whose only content was the output of an add-on (ForecastFox). I recently uninstalled the add-on which left no content on the toolbar, but the toolbar persisted.
I added some things (a few separators and some flexible space, I think–though I doubt it matters) and removed them, and THEN the toolbar disappeared.
Try removing the new icons you added. Maybe there wasn’t anything to see in the toolbar, but the action of adding/removing something new might be required to trigger the toolbar going away.
Worth noting that I had removed all buttons but left in 2 separators on my custom toolbar and that was keeping the toolbar being displayed on every new start up.
So remove all content from your toolbar to have it disappear!