So, with google being who they are wanting to create a more and more hostile environment using chrome is increasingly becoming more meh.

But no other browser really has the ok feel to it. And certain let’s call it quirks to others make them feel just meh and annoying to use because of how used i am to chrome, and I’ve tried.

And I was hoping that the one with Firefox, could be changed, or “fixed.”

Feel free to call it weird but when you’re used to something for more than a decade it’s not easy to change, and I’ve tried FF on occasion, but this just makes me unable to stick.

Open tabs. I want to see them all, always. I want to be able to open and open and open, and all that happens, is like in chrome, (and now edge I believe? I’ve not seen it behave like FF) is that it just squeezes the tabs thinner and thinner, and, in the end, you can barely click them.

the behavior in FF seems to open a certain amount, then start pushing them “off screen” accessible through ‘drop down’, you know what I mean.

simply put, how can I make Firefox, not do that, and just let me open freely, create an awful mess that probably is harder to navigate?

It all probably sounds very counterintuitive but as mentioned after 10+ years of that being a feature I really do love, being unable to find that in settings or any other way seemingly to do this, is it possible for FF to do this at all somehow?

I’ve tried googling and I only seem to find people wanting the opposite, which is of course understandable but, people are different :P

  • superkret@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    You could do the following to improve things somewhat:

    type about:config into the address bar
    read and accept the warning
    type browser.tabs.tabMinWidth into the search field
    set value to 0

    It will let you open a lot more tabs before scrolling away, but stll not an infinite amount.
    Now what’s keeping you from getting arbitrarily narrow tabs are the icons displayed on them.
    Removing them is more difficult:

    Type about:config into your address bar. Promise you’ll be careful and proceed. Now type toolkit.legacy into the search bar on the about:config page and hit enter. Look for an option named toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and click the toggle on the far right side to set this option to true.

    Type about:support into your address bar. Follow along the left side of your screen until you see a row titled Profile Folder. Directly to the right of this you should see an Open Folder button. Click on this.

    A window should launch in Windows File Explorer that will navigate to your Firefox profile’s folder. Go ahead and create a new folder inside this profile folder. You can do this by either clicking the new folder icon in the top left or by using the keyboard shortcut, CTRL + Shift + N. Rename this new folder as “chrome” (do not include the quotation marks and ensure all letters are lowercase). Open this new chrome folder.

    Right click in the empty space inside the folder, click on new, and click on Text Document. Now open this new text file. Copy and paste the following into it:

    .bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon {
    display: none !important;
}

#PlacesToolbarItems > .bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon[label]: {
    margin-inline-end: 0px !important;
}

.tabbrowser-tab .tab-icon-image {
display: none !important;
}

    Click on ‘File’ in the top left and then ‘Save As…’. Towards the bottom of the file save window, change the name of the file to “userChrome.css” (once again, do not include the quotation marks and ensure everything is lowercase except the ‘C’ in ‘Chrome’).

    Underneath the File Name box, you’ll see a Save as Type box that should currently be set to Text Documents (*.txt). Change this to All Files. Click on Save. Now go back into Firefox and type about:profiles into your address bar. Click on the Restart Normally… button in the top right corner of the page.