Firefox... taming the beast !

ill be honest, when I saw the release notes for this, I figured "oh god, there potentially goes half of the stuff I customized about my firefox", but probably because I've been using the GPO policy files for firefox, I only used the proton flag set to false, the rest was livable

I will say that this proton look (to me at the very least), is firefox's attempt to force a mobile-centric UI setup on the desktop/laptop firefox, and when its done right (somehow :/ ), I can try to get used to it, but taking the "shoving it down your throat and you'll like it" approach ain't cash money bro, it just ain't

Anak said:

That's strange...It already is. I took this from the code box I posted in my previous post:

The reason css is not working for you might be because you haven't toggled the preference below to true.You have to do that in about:config, otherwise css will not work.

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

This has to be done when you create a new profile. So, if you did this before but created a new profile since that time, you need to do this again. That preference is like a switch that tells Firefox to read the css file. It can be used to turn on or off css.

Bo

bo elam said:

The reason css is not working for you might be because you haven't toggled the preference below to true.You have to do that in about:config, otherwise css will not work.

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

This has to be done when you create a new profile. So, if you did this before but created a new profile since that time, you need to do this again. That preference is like a switch that tells Firefox to read the css file. It can be used to turn on or off css.

Bo

Thx Bo,
Toggling that to true was the first thing I did and I haven't created a new profile, I'm working off the one created when my FF 88.0.1 updated to 89.

Code:

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default-release

Anak said:

Thx Bo,
Toggling that to true was the first thing I did and I haven't created a new profile, I'm working off the one created when my FF 88.0.1 updated to 89.

I believe you and I talked about tabs on the bottom before, so I think you have used css before. Try this code. Copy and paste it in your personal css file, take all 5 files from Ari out of the chrome folder, and see if it works for you.

Or, leave Ari's files in the chrome folder if you are using it for something else and is working for that, and puts yours in there after you rename it as "my_userChrome".

So, if you use your file together with Ari's, you name your csss file "my_userChrome". But if you only use you css file, you name it "userChrome". The top line of the css file chaged not long ago, so if you use and old file you have, make sure the top line is correct. When Firefox opens up, if you see blank spaces or the bottom way down or up, not aligned or something not looking right, then you play with the values. Change them and see the effect.

FWIW, I don't use the Bookmarks toolbar, I use the Menu bar, and haven't disabled any Proton settings in about:config, so the values in that code are perfect for me but they might not be for you. If you play with them, is likely you ll get what you want.


@-moz-document url(chrome://browser/content/browser.xul), url(chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml) {


/* TABS: on bottom */

@import "./tabs_below_navigation_toolbar.css";

*|*:root {
--menubar-height: 36px;
--bookmarkbar-height: 1px;
--tabbar-top: calc(var(--menubar-height) + var(--bookmarkbar-height) + var(--tab-min-height) + 8px); /*89+*/
}

#TabsToolbar {
display: block !important;
position: absolute !important;
top: 67px !important;
width: 100vw !important;
}

#tabbrowser-tabs {
width: 100vw !important;
}
#main-window:not([chromehidden*="toolbar"]) #navigator-toolbox {padding-bottom: var(--tab-min-height) !important;}

}

Bo

Yes Bo we have worked together to get one of my earlier versions to go tabsonbottom and it was working great until I okayed the 89 update and proton used a broom and brushed all the old stuff out, everything went back to their defaults, the most I lost was my personal homepage.

Whew! I thank you for the instructions, that's gonna be a lot for me to go over and apply so you might not hear from me until late Sun. .