Comment by jandrese | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jandrese | Hacker News Reader

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I didn't remove them but I moved them back to where they make the most sense with this:

$profile_dir/chrome/userChrome.css

  /* Tab bar below Navigation & Bookmarks Toolbars For best results, show Title Bar or Menu Bar */ 
  #nav-bar         { /* main toolbar */      -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important; border-top-width: 0 !important; } 
  #PersonalToolbar { /* bookmarks toolbar */ -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2 !important; } 
  #TabsToolbar     { /* tab bar */           -moz-box-ordinal-group: 3 !important; }

I also prefer the old style menus so I re-enabled them with View->Toolbars->Menu Bar.

Another quick tip: those big ugly spaces between the buttons and the address bar can be removed with a simple right click->remove on the empty space.

I wonder what was the reasoning behind adding those spaces for everybody.

No idea if this is intenional or if it was just for the drag space / design, but what it also does, is that it moves the start of the URL more into the middle of the viewing area.

And the start of the URL contains security-critical information (http/-s and domain name), so having that closer to your eyeballs is generally helpful, even if it means cutting some of the URL off at the end. Especially so for average users which is ultimately the user group that's mainly going to be using the default.

Since on most platforms the tabs go all the way to top of the window now, there isn't room to grab the window to move it around. Those spaces act as extra drag targets.

On many linux distros, you can grab any window and move it around by: 'Alt + Left Click' anywhere on the window.

Bonus: You can resize any window on these same distros by 'Alt + Right Click'. It will allow you to resize along the closest border(s).

You mean those spaces are on purpose?

Correct, if you maximize the window, there’s otherwise no way to drag it back down without clicking on the maximize button.

As many users rely on the functionality, they had to be added back.

You can configure them in Customize → Drag Space (on/off)

Interesting. Cool about the setting.

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