How do I customize the "awesome bar"?

I just got the forced upgrade to Firefox 12, and while I don't care for most of the new interface, I can deal. That said, I can't stand the changes to the "awesome bar." It's very distracting that it's highlighted every time I move my cursor over it, and I also don't like that all text other than the main domain (e.g., mozilla.org) is grayed out. Is there any way to get it back to normal?

Hi,
You can try to set the values of '''browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll''' and '''browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled''' to false in [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config].
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config Entries]

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