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I'd like to make the Findbar in Firefox Quantum always visible; ie. I don't want to have to press Ctrl-F or do Main Menu > Edit > Find in This Page. (Sometimes the web page will override the keyboard shortcuts, and I'm using AutoHotkey GUI automation to search for items in my web page.)

I had found what I thought was the perfect simple way to do this: just modify userChrome.css to tell Firefox to show the Findbar all the time, as follows:

#FindToolbar {
    display: -moz-box !important;
}

This was from https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=243750&highlight=

However, it doesn't seem to work. On further examination, the page is from 2005. Is there a way to do the same with the newer versions of Firefox? (I'm using v 62.02 -- I'm leery about updating since every little UI tweak means I have to redo my AutoHotkey automation, but I'm willing to update if that will enable a permanent Findbar.)

Thanks

I couldn't find any other site that answered this question. There were other answers about how to make the Findbar appear in all tabs, and about how it would stay visible forever right after the first time I hit Ctrl-F, but nothing about how to make it appear without having to do anything in the first place.

I tried to ask this in MozillaZine, but when it asked me how many letters there were in Mozilla (and I answered 7), it said that the answer was wrong and I was a spambot.

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I actually just answered a question from someone else detailing how they can inspect Firefox's chrome UI and develop userContent.css for it. Since I still had the Developer stuff within reach, I did a little digging and found the element you want is now called findbar. As such, the following code works on Firefox 70:

findbar {
  display: -moz-box !important;
  visibility: visible !important;
  margin-bottom: 0 !important;
  opacity: 1 !important;
}

findbar .close-icon {
  display: none !important;
}

Only one caveat: it won't be visible when you first start up Firefox, but after it's been opened, it will stay visible. With a little more work, you might be able to find and fix that caveat too.

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I also cannot understand why the Findbar should not stay visible as a preference -at least for desktop PCS - (and why some browsers delete the search words when switching to a different tab, as if researchers do not open many tabs in searching for some info).

However, some good news is the Floorp browser - orig. from some Japanese students - enables this under Settings. Also, it even allows for enabling multi-tab rows (without hacking as reguired for Firefox and Vivaldi), under about:preferences#design. Yes, I thank God for this and them, as it is basically essential for me.

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