SillyDog701

[JPIC]

I'm using Netscape 8.0.1 and finds the URL bar too inconvenient. Is there a way so that I could view a bigger portion of the url I put in? Thanks.

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[Al]

Put it on some other toolbar

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[Antony]

Put it on some other toolbar

Can you do that?

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[Fulvio]

I'm using Netscape 8.0.1 and finds the URL bar too inconvenient. Is there a way so that I could view a bigger portion of the url I put in? Thanks.

I played around with the thing, and found out that you will be better off removing some item from the URL toolbar, and place them in another one of the multibars. As a minimum you will want to keep all the stuff on the left, and I could move to the Local, or any other multibar, the Search, the security center. The problem is that I could not put everything back the way it was.
As you remove items in the URL bar it will stretch. However, I have not been able to stretch the Search bar

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[beanboy89]

IMO, Netscape 8's default interface is very cluttered. Maybe it's just an illusion as I run 800x600, but whatever the case, I removed alot of buttons that I'd never use. I've also hid the Persional Toolbar form Netscape 8.



My customized Netscape 8.0.1. The Location(URL) bar is alot more visable now.

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[DJGM]

My installation of Netscape 8.0.1 on Windows 2000, with a clean uncluttered UI . . .

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[Ramona]

Welcome to the Forum JPIC!

You can remove the Search and/or the Go buttons in order to increase the width of the Location/URL Bar. Add the following code to the user.Chrome.css file:

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/* Remove Go button and Search bar */

#go-button,
#search-container {
   display: none !important;
}

The userChrome.css file is located here:
[tt]<path>\Applications Data\Netscape\NSB\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.xxx\chrome[/tt]

If you haven't created a userChrome.css file:
Open Notepad or WordPad
Copy the above code
Save the file as: userContent.css, and save to the above chrome folder.

Ramona

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[Don_HH2K]

I've found that you can increase the size of the address bar by doing one of two things: give the address bar its own bar, or remove the Search bar (which is possible, even though the application prevents you from doing so). Just drag the Search bar down to the Personal Toolbar, and hide the Personal Toolbar.

Alternatively, you can fool around with it too much, so that all the toolbar padding and images will be removed, leaving you with a blindingly fast and extremely simple browser:

(resized from 1024x768, click for larger version)

And believe it or not, folks, that thing works: a lot like MFCEmbed: fast and non-flashy.

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[Antony]

You can remove the Search and/or the Go buttons in order to increase the width of the Location/URL Bar. Add the following code to the user.Chrome.css file:

Code: Select all

/* Remove Go button and Search bar */

#go-button,
#search-container {
   display: none !important;
}

The userChrome.css file is located here:
[tt]<path>\Applications Data\Netscape\NSB\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.xxx\chrome[/tt]

Thanks Ramona,

Removing mine now.

The Google search field in Safari can be easily resized, but without resizing it, it never looks anywhere as unfit as in Netscape 8.

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