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Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.

Hamuko 5y ago
I just made mine look like the old black tab bar again with userChrome.css.
- aendruk 5y ago
  An example for the curious: https://gist.github.com/7accb09dbddd494f53dc889877c1f524 https://gist.github.com/7accb09dbddd494f53dc889877c1f524
- Rebelgecko 5y ago
  I ended up just turning the tab bar off and using the Tree Tabs extension
wnevets 5y ago
does anyone know of an about:config to the switch tab style back? Its still hard for me to notice which style is actually selected with Dark Mode
- Cu3PO42 5y ago
  You need to set browser.proton.enabled to false. There's a number of browser.proton.*.enabled settings for various parts of the UI as well.
  - tsjq 5y ago
    thanks. that's helpful.
Proven 5y ago
The new style is bullshit. I've switched to ESR which still uses old tabs and I'll completely get rid of it once it gets updated to the new tab style.
agumonkey 5y ago
I'm still not adjusted to it and will probably never be.
- deleted 5y ago
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tempest_ 5y ago
I remember seeing a lot of complaining about the tabs in the last release thread but they dont seem to bother me at all. What is the issue with the new tabs?
- starik36 5y ago
  They bothered me greatly on the first day. To the point where I started messing around with userChrome.css to change them back. I was fine the second day. I think it was just a case of someone moving my cheese unexpectedly.
- johnchristopher 5y ago
  Personally, very very personally, I don't like the look, I prefer all my apps to be themed by the OS and to use the underlying widgets. That's not how FF is built though but that's okay since when they do bring change like that I still can user userchrome (I still can user userChrome, right ?) /meme.
- shakow 5y ago
  IMHO, they're pretty, but waste quite some space for no gain apart prettinnes.
  - commoner 5y ago
    There is a petition on the Mozilla Ideas forum to retain the "Compact" interface option, which would conserve space in the tab bar: https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719764 https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719764
- _ph_ 5y ago
  The missing partition between tabs irritates me greatly. Especially as the label of the tab fades out to the right, there is no indication for the exact x-space taken up by a tab. The only fixed thing is the favicon. Furthermore, the fading out of the text is greatly irritating me. My vision is the best and I constantly try to focus on those parts but they are not out of focus, but faded out. Just a vertical separator of some sorts would help with visibility in my eyes (literally! :p)
akho 5y ago
The tab bar is functionally useless if you have > 10 tabs open, so I don't even know why I'd notice. Aesthetically, it's fine for me. Option to hide it completely (replacing with a mobile-style full-screen modal view with properly sized previews and keyboard navigation / fuzzy finding if you allow me to dream) would be nice.
- metalliqaz 5y ago
  I started using Tree Style Tab to manage them, and I like that very much. I agree, a mobile-style manager would be interesting.
  - akho 5y ago
    I use tridactyl’s `:b` often. No previews, no fullscreen, no fuzzy matching, but at least full titles and word search.
  - Nadya 5y ago
    Sounds a bit like you'd like Tab Groups. I used Tab Groups extensively until that functionality was ripped out and put into a shitty, poorly maintained, broken add-on. A quick Ctrl+Shift+E and I could organize everything into work/research/gaming/wikis/whatever and quickly search all tabs or within a specific tab group to switch tabs. The add-on kind of works but isn't as feature complete and from my experience was pretty buggy and wouldn't properly maintain my groups between sessions sometimes. Honestly web browsers have been in a steady decline for me ever since FF34~ish with the exception of better modern CSS/JS support. They kill features and functionality I use extensively and rarely provide any alternatives. Few of my browser extensions even work since FF killed off all old addons. It forced me to use Chrome and now Chrome is looking like they'll be killing off a good number of extensions I use in the near future. Can't have a browser for power-users because power-users don't make up enough market share. sigh
    - yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
      > until that functionality was ripped out and put into a shitty, poorly maintained, broken add-on. Since you didn't quite say it explicitly: The real insult was that they factored it out into an extension, and then promptly broke the extension by ripping out the API surface it needed.
phit_ 5y ago
loving 'Firefox-UI-Fix' which fixes all the density changes introduced as well https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/ https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
- sharps1 5y ago
  Agreed - this makes the ui much better. It's annoying have to manually enable compact in about:config to get back to the compact layout in new profiles.
tgv 5y ago
I also didn't like the change. I prefer a clearer separation between tabs, but I don't notice it anymore. I'm not a great tab user, though: just a handful at a time, but perhaps an extra window or two for different tasks (e.g. general browsing, keeping an eye on our websites, and some standard library/stack overflow/AWS/etc. pages).

Hamuko 5y ago

I just made mine look like the old black tab bar again with userChrome.css.

aendruk 5y ago
An example for the curious: https://gist.github.com/7accb09dbddd494f53dc889877c1f524 https://gist.github.com/7accb09dbddd494f53dc889877c1f524
Rebelgecko 5y ago
I ended up just turning the tab bar off and using the Tree Tabs extension

wnevets 5y ago

does anyone know of an about:config to the switch tab style back? Its still hard for me to notice which style is actually selected with Dark Mode

Cu3PO42 5y ago
You need to set browser.proton.enabled to false. There's a number of browser.proton.*.enabled settings for various parts of the UI as well.
- tsjq 5y ago
  thanks. that's helpful.

Proven 5y ago

The new style is bullshit. I've switched to ESR which still uses old tabs and I'll completely get rid of it once it gets updated to the new tab style.

agumonkey 5y ago

I'm still not adjusted to it and will probably never be.

deleted 5y ago
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tempest_ 5y ago

I remember seeing a lot of complaining about the tabs in the last release thread but they dont seem to bother me at all. What is the issue with the new tabs?

starik36 5y ago
They bothered me greatly on the first day. To the point where I started messing around with userChrome.css to change them back. I was fine the second day. I think it was just a case of someone moving my cheese unexpectedly.
johnchristopher 5y ago
Personally, very very personally, I don't like the look, I prefer all my apps to be themed by the OS and to use the underlying widgets. That's not how FF is built though but that's okay since when they do bring change like that I still can user userchrome (I still can user userChrome, right ?) /meme.
shakow 5y ago
IMHO, they're pretty, but waste quite some space for no gain apart prettinnes.
- commoner 5y ago
  There is a petition on the Mozilla Ideas forum to retain the "Compact" interface option, which would conserve space in the tab bar: https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719764 https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719764
_ph_ 5y ago
The missing partition between tabs irritates me greatly. Especially as the label of the tab fades out to the right, there is no indication for the exact x-space taken up by a tab. The only fixed thing is the favicon. Furthermore, the fading out of the text is greatly irritating me. My vision is the best and I constantly try to focus on those parts but they are not out of focus, but faded out. Just a vertical separator of some sorts would help with visibility in my eyes (literally! :p)

akho 5y ago

The tab bar is functionally useless if you have > 10 tabs open, so I don't even know why I'd notice. Aesthetically, it's fine for me. Option to hide it completely (replacing with a mobile-style full-screen modal view with properly sized previews and keyboard navigation / fuzzy finding if you allow me to dream) would be nice.

metalliqaz 5y ago
I started using Tree Style Tab to manage them, and I like that very much. I agree, a mobile-style manager would be interesting.
- akho 5y ago
  I use tridactyl’s `:b` often. No previews, no fullscreen, no fuzzy matching, but at least full titles and word search.
- Nadya 5y ago
  Sounds a bit like you'd like Tab Groups. I used Tab Groups extensively until that functionality was ripped out and put into a shitty, poorly maintained, broken add-on. A quick Ctrl+Shift+E and I could organize everything into work/research/gaming/wikis/whatever and quickly search all tabs or within a specific tab group to switch tabs. The add-on kind of works but isn't as feature complete and from my experience was pretty buggy and wouldn't properly maintain my groups between sessions sometimes. Honestly web browsers have been in a steady decline for me ever since FF34~ish with the exception of better modern CSS/JS support. They kill features and functionality I use extensively and rarely provide any alternatives. Few of my browser extensions even work since FF killed off all old addons. It forced me to use Chrome and now Chrome is looking like they'll be killing off a good number of extensions I use in the near future. Can't have a browser for power-users because power-users don't make up enough market share. sigh
  - yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
    > until that functionality was ripped out and put into a shitty, poorly maintained, broken add-on. Since you didn't quite say it explicitly: The real insult was that they factored it out into an extension, and then promptly broke the extension by ripping out the API surface it needed.

phit_ 5y ago

loving 'Firefox-UI-Fix' which fixes all the density changes introduced as well https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/ https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/

sharps1 5y ago
Agreed - this makes the ui much better. It's annoying have to manually enable compact in about:config to get back to the compact layout in new profiles.

tgv 5y ago

I also didn't like the change. I prefer a clearer separation between tabs, but I don't notice it anymore. I'm not a great tab user, though: just a handful at a time, but perhaps an extra window or two for different tasks (e.g. general browsing, keeping an eye on our websites, and some standard library/stack overflow/AWS/etc. pages).