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title: >
  Back/Forward Dropdown Remover - an Extension for Firefox
date: 2005-08-01 00:29
modified: 2008-01-30 16:19
status: published
description: >
  An Extension for Firefox that removes the dropdown arrows from the Back and Forward buttons.

tags: Firefox, extensions, add-ons, userChrome, downloads

---

<p>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1041/" title="(Mozilla Addons)">Back/Forward Dropdown Remover</a> is a tiny extension that removes the dropdown arrows from Firefox's Back and Forward buttons.
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<p><ins datetime="2008-01-30T16:19Z">This add-on is no longer being updated (by me)—there won't be an update compatible with Firefox 3 (or later versions).</ins>
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<p>
It's now compatible with Firefox 0.9.x and 1.0.x, as well as “Deer Park” development versions and Firefox 1.5 beta onwards. I figured out compatibility with 1.0.x, despite it requiring a more complex, obsolete extension packaging system, mainly because lots of people couldn't read <q>Requires: Firefox: Deer Park - Deer Park</q>.
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<p>
The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit" title="Firefox Help: Editing Configuration Files (Mozilla)">userChrome CSS</a> code itself has been floating around for ages on various Firefox tips sites; I just packaged it up into an extension for ease of installation, and in order to gain some limited extension-making mojo.
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