We’ve been getting a lot of comments over the weekend from people expressing their disgust with Firefox 3’s new location bar dubbed AwesomeBar. Sad to say, we also share their opinions and are out to find ways to make it less of a bother. Here’s one other thing that might need fixing – the “Go” button.

Some mousers (people who love to use the mouse) might complain that the “Go” button only shows up. It is replaced by the “Star” icon used to bookmark links. For mousers, clicking the “Go” button is more important than bookmarking so having the “Go” button displayed permanently is required. (Though keyboard ninjas would definitely say, “Just hit the damn Enter key!”)

Here are two things to go about it.

In Firefox, there’s this file called the userChrome.css that actually determines how display elements of Firefox are shown. For a detailed take on editing this file, visit our post on editing the userChrome.css file. It still works for Firefox 3.

All you have to do is to insert these line of code:

/* Permanently show Go button */
#urlbar[pageproxystate="valid"] > #urlbar-icons > #go-button { visibility: visible !important;
}

And here’s the nice and simple solution of just getting an add-on to do it. Show Go gives you a permanent “Go” button without the hassle of editing your chrome file.

Download Show Go Firefox add-on here.