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Sure, having a little extra screen estate is nice, but I use the bar often, and the constant disappearing and reappearing gets on my nerves. Looked through about:config for any options that looked relevant and couldn't find anything. No luck turning up any documentation or add-ons that help either. Maybe my search foo is weak of late, or perhaps I'm the only one who thinks this is annoying.

Is there a fix for this besides switching to decaf and taking up meditation?

UPDATE: Sorry for wasting everyone's time here. A reinstall fixed the problem. Not sure how the copy I downloaded picked up that annoying behavior -- it was still present with all add-ons disabled -- but it's gone now. Thank you for making me aware that it wasn't normal Firefox behavior.

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Hmm, I just fired up Firefox 8.01 and the address bar (with the URL in it, right?) never disappears - how do you get it to do that? – Caspar Dec 9 '11 at 16:36
Is it possible that you have installed the Less Chrome HD AddOn? Because by default the address bar shouldn't automagically hide in FF… – Dirk D Dec 9 '11 at 16:55
I've never used that add-on or any other to modify the user interface. Tried disabling all my add-ons and restarting, but I still get the behavior. Maybe I should do a fresh install. I'll report back after. – Michael Hart Dec 9 '11 at 18:21
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I assume you mean the navigation toolbar, where you type in the website. First make sure you're not using fullscreen by pressing F11. If that doesn't work, right click somewhere on the Firefox top bar and select navigation toolbar.

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Thanks for your reply! Yes, the navigation toolbar is the one I mean. It fades from view when not being used. I'd rather it stay around. I do have it on, and I'm not using fullscreen mode. Not sure which version of Firefox introduced the behavior. I'm pretty sure it wasn't in 4. I only upgraded recently when I started doing some web development again, and now I'm on 8.0.1. Tried disabling all add-ons and restarting, in case something else introduced the behavior, but it seems to be built-in. I guess I'll get used to it if it can't be changed. – Michael Hart Dec 9 '11 at 18:19
Thanks, it's fixed now. Reinstalling did the trick. – Michael Hart Dec 9 '11 at 18:35
Alright, good to hear :) – Simon Verbeke Dec 9 '11 at 19:09
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