Browsers which allow the address bar to be placed above the tabs

Here is a brief tutorial: Firefox..move tabs below address bar
1) create a folder chrome in your user profile
2) copy the CSS-code (post #19) into a text file named 'userChrome.txt' and rename it 'userChrome.css' (letter C in capital !!)
3) copy the userChrome.css file into your chrome folder
4) type about:config in the browser address bar
5) confirm the warning messages
6) type toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and toggle it to true
7) restart Firefox

SPB said:

Here is a brief tutorial:

Thanks very much for that, especially for the info about using a capital C. I'll work though the sequence now.

Edited to add:

I did it, adding chrome/userChrome.css to AppData/Local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles

I then did the registry tweak and restarted Firefox (the latest version) - nothing had changed. And when I checked about: profiles userchrome.css did not appear on the list.

Should I add the new material to AppData/Roaming... as well? I'll try it and see what happens.

The chrome folder must be created in your roaming user profile, not the local one.
Mine looks like: C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\a1devyhij.default-esr\chrome\

The letter combination after profiles\ are different for every user.

SPB said:

The chrome folder must be created in your roaming user profile, not the local one.
Mine looks like: C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\a1devyhij.default-esr\chrome\

Ah, that's where I went wrong. I'll try again. Thanks.

:Edited to add:

This is getting silly. Still no change and no new profile in the about: profiles list. I'll check through every step: presumabluy I must have made a mistake somewhere (well, either that or this computer simply doesn't like Firefox).

Edited again:

Got it. I've been adding the Chrome folder as a separate item in the main Profiles folder rather than in my existing profile folder. Presumably it has to go into the folder of the current default profile: there are several others there as well.

OK, having another go...

Ghot said:

Just do the about:config tweaks, then download the "Chrome 4.3.4.zip"
Open it an put the Chrome folder inside... into...

C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\0xxxxx8f.default-release folder, and restart Firefox.

At last! That's got me almost there:



Thank you. There are still some tweaks I'd like to do: your screenshot from yesterday represents my ideal layout, especially with the File, Edit, View... commands in the bar above the address bar. But this has been a major step forward.

Ghot said:

If you right click where the BLUE dot is....

By this stage of the game (and since I imagine you have already decided that I'm a complete idiot) you won't be in the least surprised to hear that I see no blue dot. But I'm sure it must be there somewhere so I shan't give up.