How to Fix the Firefox Grey Bar Below the Status Bar

Ok, you just installed a new Firefox extension and it didn’t go well. After restart you notice a grey bar bellow the status bar with sort of a prompt looking like this: ^. The caret (^) may or may not be followed by an error. Since it’s not the first time I hate when that happens.

The official fix found at mozillazine tells you to disable your extensions one by one, and after each disable to restart Firefox. This is fine if you have a handful of extensions, but if you’re like me, you got so many that you forgot what some of them do. It would take ages to do that, not to mention the session restore thing loading all your open tabs each time.

If the last extension you installed was at fault, then it’s easy, just disable it, reinstall it, or uninstall it, your choice. If you did some dirty profile work, like dumping one profile over another, or some such then it’s gonna be harder to fix. First look around and find something out of place, and extension that doesn’t work, an icon or menu that suddenly disapeared, or something like that. If there is more then one apparent problem make a list with the bad extensions.

Start by going to Firefox Add-ons and get the Add to Search Bar extension. Install, restart. This extension will allow you to search for other extension right from the Firefox search bar. Well, I use it to search for Wordpress plugins as well, and many other things. My Firefox search engine bar scrolls off the screen!

To use "Add to Search Bar" go back to Firefox Add-ons, right click in the search field, then in the pop-up menu chose "Add to Search Bar". Simple! Next choose the Firefox Add-ons search engine and search for the plugins you found malfunctioning earlier. Search and install each and every one of them. Restart and it should work.

If the above did not fix your problem, then it is time to reinstall them all. You also might want to look at the problematic extensions on MozillaZine.

While searching to a firefox logo to put up there, I came across this image:

and also this weird site maybe[...]world.cn and seeing that I’m sure that "maybe this is the biggest logo of firefox in the world" indeed! It is notable because it has 44 characters in the domain name, not a record by any means, since the maximum length of a domain name that can be registered is 63 (excluding the extension).

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The reason why I haven’t posted in a while is that I have upgraded to WP 2.5.1, and lots of things are broken, the most important of which is the TinyMCE editor, which I partially fixed. I know… I’m one of the many.