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#286057 2-Jun-2021 17:01

Firefox 89 (macOS) was released today. Quite the UI update/change

I have been using Firefox since it’s inception mainly because of its customisability and at one stage even had an Add-on in their store. I still heavily customise the UI mainly the tabs location to below the Personal toolbar but lots of other tweaks using my own code and code by https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx

Well today’s update played right havoc with things so spent a few merry hours chasing things down and rewriting. Have got it looking 98% the way I like it.

urgent emails and calls off to friends and relatives not to update to new version till I get there 😃

Fun and games

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#2717387 2-Jun-2021 17:39

It is a subtle change for me but I actually really like it. I use Firefox on all my devices and noticed they all got an update.

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#2717415 2-Jun-2021 19:39

michaelmurfy:

It is a subtle change for me but I actually really like it. I use Firefox on all my devices and noticed they all got an update.

I used to use firefox, however found it was clunky until the quantum one was released.

do you use it in preference over chrome?

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#2717417 2-Jun-2021 19:46

No so worried about the layout, but the whole thing requires me to wear sunglasses now. Even the favicons on a new tab are shrunken to allow more white around them. I didn't select the option to pick a theme, maybe I will find something less likely to burn my retinas in there.

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#2717500 3-Jun-2021 00:32

Delorean: I used to use firefox, however found it was clunky until the quantum one was released.

do you use it in preference over chrome?

From a privacy point of view Firefox is much better than Chrome. Also Facebook sandboxing is awesome.

I find it just as fast as Chrome these days and actually less of a memory hog. I actually really dislike Chrome since switching browsers a few years back to Firefox.

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#2717535 3-Jun-2021 09:28

I just like that in dark mode (or whatever it is) my dropdown list of sites is now also dark.

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#2717748 3-Jun-2021 16:15

Following more tweaking I have now got my FF89 browser back to the way I/we like it.

I use https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx code package to get the Tabs down to just above body of page content, alter text & close button. Also for all the icons, plus a few other little things.

My own code places the favicon above centre of the bookmark text. It also rotates on hover and the text changes red on a green background.

My biggest problem with all of this has been finding the ID's and correct expressions for each alteration I wish to do

eg:

/*******************************************/
/* Change the appearance of toolbar bookmark hover text */
/********************************************/

#PersonalToolbar toolbarbutton.bookmark-item:hover .toolbarbutton-text {
background-image: none !important;
background-color:#8bdd58 !important;
border-radius: 4px; !important;
font-weight: bold; !important;

So if anybody knows a bit more than I do there are a few more tweaks I would like to do.

eg: I would like to change the text colour of the popup url property when on hover.

Cheers

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#2718259 4-Jun-2021 13:22

i hate how they keep moving things around in the UI and not giving people an easy way to customize them themselves.

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#2718302 4-Jun-2021 14:04

Setting both of these on the about:config page to false got me 90% of the way back to the previously perfectly alright UI that didn't need to be changed anyway because it was fiiiine:

browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled
browser.proton.enabled

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#2718475 4-Jun-2021 21:53

gbwelly:

Setting both of these on the about:config page to false got me 90% of the way back to the previously perfectly alright UI that didn't need to be changed anyway because it was fiiiine:

browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled
browser.proton.enabled

nice thats looks better

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#2718545 5-Jun-2021 10:59

gbwelly:

Setting both of these on the about:config page to false got me 90% of the way back to the previously perfectly alright UI that didn't need to be changed anyway because it was fiiiine:

browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled
browser.proton.enabled

Thanks for that. I am an icon man. It is a pity they got rid of full browser UI theme which included all menu's etc.

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#2718649 5-Jun-2021 13:09

I swear the colours for the multi-containers has also shifted to the top & gotten thinner. Much harder to identify the container tab type now. If maximised, I am now forced to look at the very edge of my screen.

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#2718862 6-Jun-2021 08:49

See here for solutions. Well worth it.