3.5 taught the bookmarks bar to answer the hover. It did not teach it the older reflex: Ctrl+T, then straight onto a bookmark. On a fresh tab the bar stayed hidden until you reached for a URL bar you had no reason to touch. This release restores the muscle memory.
New
- On fresh tabs (new tab, home) the dynamic bookmarks bar stays revealed outright, no hover, no delay. Open a tab, click a bookmark. Navigate anywhere and it fades out as usual, and typing still hands the strip to the results list.
- Sub-toggle:
--uc-dynamic-bookmarks-newtab, default1. Set it to0for the previous hover-only behaviour. It has no effect while--uc-dynamic-bookmarksis0.
Notes
- The reveal requires a URL bar that shows no page identity and holds no text (
pageproxystateplus:placeholder-shown). An edited-then-abandoned URL bar therefore keeps the bar down instead of stranding it over the page. - Opening a link into a new foreground tab can flash the bar for the instant the tab is still blank, the same flicker Firefox' own "Only on New Tab" setting has always had.
- As always, this applies to the supported
browser.nova.enabled=trueconfiguration.
Requested by muscle memory, which does not read release notes.