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by msl 2210 days ago
Oh, don't worry: more options have been removed again: setting browser.urlbar.update1 = false no longer gives you back the old, unintrusive urlbar behavior. Mozilla UX people have once again shown that they know best and you won't need to worry about getting a bad user experience just because you mistakenly thought you liked it.

Edit: Changed 'disabled' to 'removed' in the first sentence, as it's probably clearer.

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I've been googling for the last 20 minutes trying to figure out how to re-disable this. Ugh, I can't stand it.
While you can't disable it, but you can still restyle it.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-fir...

So the only alternatives to fixing this is either switching to an LTS release or changing browsers completely? Is there an extension that fixes this?
Time to fork, I guess.
Why do they even remove the option to change it to your liking? It's... madness.
This is exactly one of the things I wasn't really looking forward to.