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The main problem with discovery is that Compact Density is enabled from a toolbar at the bottom of the Customize Firefox page, which looks looks like one of tho
by mrob 6y ago
The main problem with discovery is that Compact Density is enabled from a toolbar at the bottom of the Customize Firefox page, which looks looks like one of those annoying floating footers that badly designed web pages use to waste your screen space. It is affected by "banner blindness" and is effectively invisible.
When I saw this article I checked the Customize Firefox page to confirm I had compact layout enabled. I did not see the toolbar. I compared the UI density with a screenshot, and it seemed I had already set it to Compact, which I vaguely remembered doing. Puzzled, I returned to Customize Firefox, and still failed to see the toolbar.
I then checked about:config (which was also sabotaged recently to make it slower and remove features), and found browser.uidensity set to 1, so I really did have Compact density enabled. I returned to Customize Firefox, and only then, on my third attempt, did I see the toolbar.
- EMM_386 6y ago> The main problem with discovery is that Compact Density is enabled from a toolbar at the bottom of the Customize Firefox page, which looks looks like one of those annoying floating footers that badly designed web pages use to waste your screen space. It is affected by "banner blindness" and is effectively invisible. Exactly! I have been using Firefox since Phoenix/Firebird days and I had never seen this option until I read about this on HN today. That's 20+ years!
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoHoly shit I just found dark mode next to density in customize! When did they add that??
- KptMarchewa 6y agoYou could find it in themes in about:addons, and that's where I expected to find option like density too.
- sp332 6y agoOn Windows, the default theme now follows the OS setting. So if you turn on "Dark mode" for apps, Firefox will automatically go dark.
- madeofpalk 6y agoIt was enabled by default for me - I presume it just took my OS appearance settings?
- asdff 6y agoI don't know why firefox has so many different places to change settings
- userbinator 6y agoI then checked about:config (which was also sabotaged recently to make it slower and remove features), For many years I've lamented the usability of about:config and wish they'd turn it into a tree structure and/or at least provide useful descriptions of the options (if something as space-constrained as a mobo BIOS can provide some descriptive help text next to each option in the setup screens...), only to find the next big change they did was that abomination of "designer-ism" (for lack of better term.) That felt like a punch to the face.