Since this morning’s updates, the close button has disappeared from the text search bar at the bottom of the window in firefox (the one created by Ctrl-F to search for text in the current page). As a result I can’t see any way to get rid of it.
Am I missing something or is it a bug / misfeature?
@maycne.sonahoz I’d not come across that one. Turns out that it does work if & only if the search box is active for input. Not, in my view, an elegant solution. @Wollie I also use KDE and it’s definitely not there now for me.
A bit of tinkering based on the above comments and I think I see what is (probably) going on.
I normally have my FF window with the bookmarks displayed as the sidebar. And there is no X to close the search bar at the bottom.
Close the sidebar and the X shows up, reopen the sidebar and the X goes again.
So it appears that the sizing of the search bar is not taking into account the size of any sidebar and is consequently places the X beyond the right edge of the window.
I realized there is sligth diffrence when using Firefox dev on macOS which I were with my last comment.
Now I am using my workstation with both release and dev.
I can see there is an upstream issue - the search bar is covered by the panel - but is is fixed in the developer editon which - at the same time - is the beta of the next Firefox release.