As if the ‘Go’ Button weren’t bad enough, Firefox 3 adds a Bookmark ‘Star’ Button to the address bar.
This ‘feature’ allows you to bookmark the current page you are browsing. This can also be accomplished by pressing CTRL+D (Add Bookmark), selecting Bookmark This Page from either the Bookmarks or Context (right-click) menu. To remove the Bookmark ‘Star’ Button use ChromEdit and add the following lines to your userChrome.css file:
/* Remove the Bookmark star */
#star-button {
display: none !important; }
Once you have added these lines, click Save, then Restart; the ‘Star’ will be gone when Firefox restarts.
Tip Source: Eric Wendelin’s Blog
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Pingback by Removing ‘Live Feed’ Button « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog — Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 11:30 PM
thx.
Comment by purplepeanut — Friday, May 30, 2008 @ 1:11 PM
man, thanks so much.. what a terrible idea on the dev’s part.
Comment by mr michael — Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 4:53 AM
Why are you so negative about the star bookmark feature? I find it brilliant. The alternatives you mention for adding a bookmark all require extra attention and moving mental focus away from the page you are browsing. With the star you can add a bookmark with a single click and later annotate it or throw it away – and hence keep your attention on the page in question.
Next article about removing the Live Feed button seems interesting, though…
Comment by Ulrik — Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 1:56 PM
Such a useless and unnecessary feature. Thanks for this fix,
Comment by Canadian Tourist — Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 4:47 PM
Agreed, the star is unnecessary when you can just press ctrl+d or go to bookmarks > bookmark this page. So the star in the address bar saves you one click – big deal. And in any case, it’s still faster to just use the keyboard.
Wish they made it easier to remove without having to edit the userChrome though. oh well.
Comment by abc — Friday, July 18, 2008 @ 9:25 AM
AT LAST !!!
I have searched how to remove this annoyance almost all around the web. I dont know what have in the their head developers these days.
The other annoying feature I think FF2 lost is the fact of losing in the “Downloads Window” the little links: open, remove. Now you have to right click and select them from the options on the context menu.
Comment by Rax — Sunday, August 10, 2008 @ 8:30 PM
The most annoying feature ever, GONE!! glad i found this. thanks
Comment by Kravein — Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 5:04 PM
Hi everybody.
Actually I never noticed the ’star’.. :/
Anyway I thank you so much for making me discover it.. it turned out to be helpful in ‘removing’ bookmarks on the fly (expecially double bookmarks, as I am a very untidy bookmark keeper..) rather then adding them (I usually keep all result-pages of a google query on the same ffx page and bookmark the whole set of tabs)
lol ;)
Comment by Met — Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 12:46 PM
Thanks!
I used the Old Location Bar add-on to make the Awfulbar behave a bit better, but until now I was unable to do anything about the button-clutter the Awfulbar also introduced.
With the hilariously misnamed “Awesomebar” Firefox 3 basically cornered the market wrt misfeatures, thank god most of it can be fixed with addons and by editing config-files.
Comment by Mike — Saturday, November 29, 2008 @ 8:36 AM
Thanks!
On a similar topic, any idea how I can get rid of the “bookmark this page” “subscribe to this page” and other unwanted items filling up my bookmarks tab? The easy way (right clicking) doesn’t work.
Comment by Eternal — Friday, December 5, 2008 @ 5:46 PM
@Eternal – Hmm, never really paid much attention to that. I don’t know of (an easy) way to edit the menus.
Comment by El Guru — Friday, December 5, 2008 @ 10:16 PM
Star is really really really bad idea… I hope this will work for me…
Sometimes I just sit back and go over internet websites and click only without using keyboard and that sh**** star is making it difficult…
Tnx I hope it will work.
Comment by Ivan — Saturday, January 24, 2009 @ 1:21 PM
wow thanks!
Comment by ee — Saturday, April 4, 2009 @ 6:55 PM
thank you so much!
this is an awful feature, i dont know why mozilla team doesnt make an about:config string for that.
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