Resizing Firefox Search Bar

November 4, 2004 2:25 AM

Firefox won't let resize the search bar. I've followed these instructions, and nothing. Any ideas? I'm on XP using 1.0 Preview.
posted by luser to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

This isn't exactly as elegant as getting the userchrome.css modification to work, but it should get the job done:

Resize Search Box Extension
posted by rxrfrx at 4:16 AM on November 4, 2004

I have the same problem and tried that extension and it doesn't seem to work.
posted by puffin at 5:16 AM on November 4, 2004

Try adding this line as well (in addition to the modification for #search-container, I mean):
#searchbar {
-moz-box-flex: 400 !important;
}

Any luck?
posted by j.edwards at 8:39 AM on November 4, 2004

This worked fine with earlier versions, but stopped working with Firefox 1.0 PR. Bummer.

But for me, (on WinXP), it works with j.edwards' modification! Thanks!

So to sum up, put this in userChrome.css:

#search-container {
  -moz-box-flex: 400 !important;
}
#searchbar {
  -moz-box-flex: 400 !important;
}

posted by jmcmurry at 5:08 AM on November 5, 2004