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> "I'm still waiting for a way to hide the tab bar which is a privileged UI feature now"

userChrome.css to the rescue:

- Tree Style Tab's wiki offers tips to do exactly that: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo... .

- Or you can combine the address and tab bar: https://github.com/rstacruz/firefox-stealthfox

If none is to your exact taste, https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ may help.



That's the correct solution for now, but we can only hope Mozilla won't disable the ability to use these files. They're disabled by default in FF 69: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/24/firefox-69-userchrome-css-...

And the key to reenable them has legacy in the name:

    toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets


Thanks for pointing that out. I'm worried too:

- At first, the discussion on bugzilla [1] is reasonable: user stylesheets off by default for performance, and there's even backward compat code enabling the pref during Firefox 68 if you are using them. All good...

- ... but then comes this legacy in the pref name :-| :-| :-|

I hope Mozilla keeps the feature alive, it's appreciated by many "power" users.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541233

EDIT good news: re-reading recent comments, in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541233#c61 , Florian Quèze (mozilla dev) affirms: "the word 'legacy' was used in the preference name to avoid giving the impression that with this new preference we are adding a new customization feature. I'm not aware of any plan to drop support for these files".


That is good news, thanks.


Ugh, if you're gonna pull this shit make sidebar tabs first class! They knew this way before they switched, gave some lip service to make sure the most popular extensions would get the support they needed, and now however many releases later i still have to dig through hidden files and hash-named profile directories to make this work right. And still no usable alternative to tab groups last time I checked, which they took out of core with the reasoning that it should be an extension. At least adblock still works.




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