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> Except colorways It's not even so much that that was bad—except in the way all FF updates are a little bit bad, since they like to hit you with useless pop-u

> Except colorways It's not even so much that that was bad—except in the way all FF updates are a little bit bad, since they like to hit you with useless pop-ups or spammy extra tabs that auto-focus next time you open the browser—as that it was weird. Making a huge deal out of adding themes—a feature FF had years and years ago, except that they were much better then—was so strange. They acted like it was some kind of big deal and I was over here like... wait, did you guys cut that feature at some point? It was like Microsoft making an announcement about adding a Start button, and all the copy reading like they didn't even realize that was something they'd already done. The time-limited aspect was also odd (and, in that case, a little bad, in that I think many found it off-putting).

odo1242 4y ago
Firefox still has themes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Huh. Makes it even stranger, then. Did we lose the ability to change buttons sizes and icons and padding and placement and such when they started cutting out XUL some years back? All those themes just look like background images, and it seems the demo images they use for them don't even display real buttons or other UI elements (which makes sense if you can't change them anyway, and don't want to have to regenerate those images every time FF modifies those).
  - rozab 4y ago
    You can still style every aspect of the UI by editing a userChrome.css in your profile folder, and enabling some setting. This is hidden and undocumented because Mozilla now have a terrible attitude towards users.
    - yamtaddle 4y ago
      Ah, cool. I do miss the days of using easy-to-install themes to stick with older UI if I didn't like the direction the UI was going (Firebird 0.7 FTW—though the Firefox 1.5 UI was pretty good too) but it's nice the functionality's still kinda there, if not the ease of use. [EDIT] I'm not up on this stuff in FF because it's my minutes-a-week secondary (read: for non-Apple operating systems) browser, and hasn't been my hours-a-week primary browser for nearly a decade, so I don't bother to customize it much anymore, but it is nice knowing some stuff I used to like about it is still there in case I ever go back to using it as my primary.
    - Georgelemental 4y ago
      I use this feature, but I don't mind that it's hidden because there are no stability guarantees for such themes, new versions of Firefox can and do break them.
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odo1242 4y ago

Firefox still has themes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/

yamtaddle 4y ago
Huh. Makes it even stranger, then. Did we lose the ability to change buttons sizes and icons and padding and placement and such when they started cutting out XUL some years back? All those themes just look like background images, and it seems the demo images they use for them don't even display real buttons or other UI elements (which makes sense if you can't change them anyway, and don't want to have to regenerate those images every time FF modifies those).
- rozab 4y ago
  You can still style every aspect of the UI by editing a userChrome.css in your profile folder, and enabling some setting. This is hidden and undocumented because Mozilla now have a terrible attitude towards users.
  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    Ah, cool. I do miss the days of using easy-to-install themes to stick with older UI if I didn't like the direction the UI was going (Firebird 0.7 FTW—though the Firefox 1.5 UI was pretty good too) but it's nice the functionality's still kinda there, if not the ease of use. [EDIT] I'm not up on this stuff in FF because it's my minutes-a-week secondary (read: for non-Apple operating systems) browser, and hasn't been my hours-a-week primary browser for nearly a decade, so I don't bother to customize it much anymore, but it is nice knowing some stuff I used to like about it is still there in case I ever go back to using it as my primary.
  - Georgelemental 4y ago
    I use this feature, but I don't mind that it's hidden because there are no stability guarantees for such themes, new versions of Firefox can and do break them.
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