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How do I get the old style of tabs back? I need every vertical pixel I can get.

capableweb 5y ago
> How do I get the old style of tabs back? Don't know but: > I need every vertical pixel I can get. If this is really important to you (as it is for me), try Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...). First just installed it to move the tabs to the side, but now I gotten so used to tabs in a logical tree that anything else is a big hassle to use.
- konart 5y ago
  Or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ as an alternative.
  - dTal 5y ago
    Interesting. How is it better?
    - SSLy 5y ago
      Also an user of Sideberry, from my experience it just works a little bit better than TST.
    - Vinnl 5y ago
      For me, I really liked how it has "panel" functionality that also let me replace Simple Tab Groups, and how nicely that interacts with Multi-Account Containers. I have a panel for work, and when I'm done with work I can switch to another panel for another task and no longer have to look at my work tabs - then the next day I can have just those in my tab bar again.
  - infinityplus1 5y ago
    Tree style tabs used to get very laggy when you have lots of tabs open. Sideberry performed much faster. So I switched to it.
- dTal 5y ago
  This is the same order of improvement over plain tabs, that tabs were over 1-page-per-window. All browsers should come with this by default, and the fact that they don't is proof to me that UI innovation is stagnating.
  - twobitshifter 5y ago
    Edge and Vivaldi are the two that I know of that have it as an option built in. Opera has a sidebar and uses workspaces to organize tabs now, but they used to have vertical tabs in the past.
apetresc 5y ago
In that case, install the Tree Style Tabs[1] extension, disable the tab bar altogether, and get back 100% of it :) [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... EDIT: Ah, looks like capableweb beat me to it by a fraction of a minute!
- idbehold 5y ago
  How do you disable the tab bar?
  - Vinnl 5y ago
    See https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snippets-(via-userChrome.css) https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snipp....
  - plyptepe 5y ago
    https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#on-firefox-69-and-later https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...
ihuman 5y ago
In about:config, set "browser.proton.enabled" to false. I don't know if this will work in future versions, but it works in v89.
- rwaksmunski 5y ago
  You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
- Tokelin 5y ago
  Thank you for this. While searching I also found `browser.uidensity`. Setting it to 1 makes the whole UI more compact, which gives some more vertical pixels for the website window.
  - rwaksmunski 5y ago
    Wow, browser.proton.enabled and browser.uidensity gives me 1 more pixel than Safari. This is awesome.
  - _Microft 5y ago
    Thanks for suggesting setting browser.uidensity to 1, it actually makes bars a lot more compact!
- genpfault 5y ago
  This also fixes Firefox not using the Windows 10 accent color in the titlebar[1], thanks! [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266
- pseudalopex 5y ago
  It won't work for long. Better start looking for userChrome.css fixes.
  - ihuman 5y ago
    The only one I've seen so far is Firefox-UI-Fix. In my opinion, it looks like it's halfway between the old and new UI. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/ https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
ricketycricket 5y ago
You can also re-enable compact mode in 89 by toggling browser.compactmode.show in about:config. Hope they don't remove it entirely.
rbx 5y ago
There is also browser.compactmode.show set to true that will allow compact density. Unfortunately that won't reduce the padding around bookmark entries. For that can go to https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/ https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
Ristovski 5y ago
I also use https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to tame the insane vertical (and horizontal!) padding. Might be worth checkout it out.

> How do I get the old style of tabs back? Don't know but: > I need every vertical pixel I can get. If this is really important to you (as it is for me), try Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...). First just installed it to move the tabs to the side, but now I gotten so used to tabs in a logical tree that anything else is a big hassle to use.

konart 5y ago
Or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ as an alternative.
- dTal 5y ago
  Interesting. How is it better?
  - SSLy 5y ago
    Also an user of Sideberry, from my experience it just works a little bit better than TST.
  - Vinnl 5y ago
    For me, I really liked how it has "panel" functionality that also let me replace Simple Tab Groups, and how nicely that interacts with Multi-Account Containers. I have a panel for work, and when I'm done with work I can switch to another panel for another task and no longer have to look at my work tabs - then the next day I can have just those in my tab bar again.
- infinityplus1 5y ago
  Tree style tabs used to get very laggy when you have lots of tabs open. Sideberry performed much faster. So I switched to it.
dTal 5y ago
This is the same order of improvement over plain tabs, that tabs were over 1-page-per-window. All browsers should come with this by default, and the fact that they don't is proof to me that UI innovation is stagnating.
- twobitshifter 5y ago
  Edge and Vivaldi are the two that I know of that have it as an option built in. Opera has a sidebar and uses workspaces to organize tabs now, but they used to have vertical tabs in the past.

apetresc 5y ago

In that case, install the Tree Style Tabs[1] extension, disable the tab bar altogether, and get back 100% of it :) [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... EDIT: Ah, looks like capableweb beat me to it by a fraction of a minute!

idbehold 5y ago
How do you disable the tab bar?
- Vinnl 5y ago
  See https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snippets-(via-userChrome.css) https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snipp....
- plyptepe 5y ago
  https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#on-firefox-69-and-later https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...

ihuman 5y ago

In about:config, set "browser.proton.enabled" to false. I don't know if this will work in future versions, but it works in v89.

rwaksmunski 5y ago
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Tokelin 5y ago
Thank you for this. While searching I also found `browser.uidensity`. Setting it to 1 makes the whole UI more compact, which gives some more vertical pixels for the website window.
- rwaksmunski 5y ago
  Wow, browser.proton.enabled and browser.uidensity gives me 1 more pixel than Safari. This is awesome.
- _Microft 5y ago
  Thanks for suggesting setting browser.uidensity to 1, it actually makes bars a lot more compact!
genpfault 5y ago
This also fixes Firefox not using the Windows 10 accent color in the titlebar[1], thanks! [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266
pseudalopex 5y ago
It won't work for long. Better start looking for userChrome.css fixes.
- ihuman 5y ago
  The only one I've seen so far is Firefox-UI-Fix. In my opinion, it looks like it's halfway between the old and new UI. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/ https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/

ricketycricket 5y ago

You can also re-enable compact mode in 89 by toggling browser.compactmode.show in about:config. Hope they don't remove it entirely.

rbx 5y ago

There is also browser.compactmode.show set to true that will allow compact density. Unfortunately that won't reduce the padding around bookmark entries. For that can go to https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/ https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/

Ristovski 5y ago

I also use https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to tame the insane vertical (and horizontal!) padding. Might be worth checkout it out.