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Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox

Language: CSS

#21 in Firefox
For Firefox desktop I have enabled the menu bar and the bookmark bar with the methods commented in the other messages.

Also, I use a custom userChrome.css that uses as basis https://github.com/aris-t2/customcssforfx

From time to time comes a Firefox update that makes mandatory to update such userChrome.css and waste time trying to find what additionally changed and needs to be updated by my_userChrome.css also, but as reward for such pain I have the same view that was used to be with the browsers years ago. I mean, from top to down with small gray icons: menu bar, url bar with addons at the right, bookmarks bar where I put folders based by category (unfold and fold on press), and finally tabs and pinned tabs over the page content.

With the minimalist tendency of current browsers, they sacrifice what makes a browser usable, an usability killing that also forces the user to continually waste time making hacks for to conserve it. But at least it can be done, so at my side I just pray that it at least stays that way.

You can still mod Firefox's UI pretty easily, its all defined by CSS files and not too difficult to customize. I for instance actually did the opposite of what you wanted and completely got rid of the tab bar cause I use Sidebery for tab management: https://i.imgur.com/cHz1clI.png Theres a whole subreddit for it even: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

This repo (and that subreddit) has all the info on setting stuff up in Firefox: https://github.com/aris-t2/customcssforfx and even has a CSS example for doing multi-tab lines: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/blob/master/curren...

Some other useful resources, including how to get tabs on bottom for those of us that like our world topsy-turvy:

- https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix - a good base including different light/dark themes. See Tips for code to put tabs on bottom

- https://github.com/aris-t2/customcssforfx - huge collection of different CSS that you can mix together for the perfectly customised UI

Hoping some day someone builds a playground so it's easy to build/customise interfaces through a GUI as I find it a bit of a chore to get things tweaked exactly right!

In the meantime it's worth noting you can use remote debugging[1] to live edit the interface.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/73dvty/tutorial...