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How to switch back to Firefox' old style of tabs?

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How to switch back to Firefox' old style of tabs?

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The recent update (89 I think) causes all tabs to render in the same continuous shading, which makes it somehow more difficult to spot each tab's start and end (regardless of the favicon, I'm sorry, silly old proper borders just were easier on my eyes). How do I get that back? I tried this related answer's browser.proton.enabled=false to no avail, and re-enabling compact mode also did only partially restore the previous look and feel. How can I get good old tab shading and borders back?

asked Jun 3 at 19:30

In Firefox 91, restore the old tab style as follows:

  1. Open about:config.

  2. Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets.

  3. Double-click the value to set it to true.

  4. Open about:support.

  5. Search for Profile Directory (or Profile Folder).

  6. Click Open Directory (or Open Folder).

  7. Create a directory named chrome.

  8. Navigate into the chrome directory.

  9. Create a new file inside chrome named userChrome.css.

  10. Copy and paste the following code into userChrome.css:

     .tab-background {
   border-radius: 0px 0px !important;
   margin-bottom: 0px !important;
 }

 .tabbrowser-tab:not([selected=true]):not([multiselected=true]) .tab-background {
   background-color: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 5%, transparent);
 }

 menupopup>menu,
 menupopup>menuitem {
   padding-block: 2px !important;
 }

 :root {
   --arrowpanel-menuitem-padding: 2px !important;
 }

  11. Save the file.

  12. Restart Firefox.

The old tab style is restored.

answered 2 days ago

Not surprisingly I'm not the only one disliking this, and fortunately there's already a fix called Lepton at https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix#installation-guide. It still doesn't feel 100% proper, but so much better already with simple tab separators.

answered Jun 3 at 19:43

Setting browser.proton.enabled to false in about:config did work for me.

answered Jun 8 at 13:26

Using userChrome.css. you can easily customize many aspects of Firefox. In the example below, inactive tabs are uniformly gray, the active tab is a gradient ascending from red to green, and the tab over which the cursor hovers is a gradient from light to dark gray.

  • Open your Firefox profile.

    • In Linux, Home\.mozilla\firefox\xxxxxxxx.default
    • In Windows, C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default
    • Mac OS, Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default.

  • If there is no folder Chrome, create it.

  • If there is no file userChrome.css in that folder, create it as a text document, i.e. with Notepad, Notepad++, or other text editor.

  • Copy and paste text below and save the file. (If you're editing an existing userChrome.css and the @namespace line exists, there's no need to duplicate it.)

  • Close and restart Firefox to see the new tab style.

    @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

/* Tab: selected colors */
#tabbrowser-tabs .tabbrowser-tab[selected] .tab-content { background: linear-gradient(to bottom,#AAFFAA,#FFAAFF) !important; }

/* Tab: hovered colors */
#tabbrowser-tabs .tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected]) .tab-content { background: linear-gradient(to bottom,#808080,#FFFFFF) !important; }

Feel free to modify the appearance to your taste. The style sheet code is easy to understand by inspection, and mistakes do no harm - just remove them and restart Firefox. See Mozilla here and here, for example, on tab coloring.

answered Jun 3 at 23:30

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