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How do I get the old style of tabs back? I need every vertical pixel I can get.

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> How do I get the old style of tabs back?

Don't know but:

> I need every vertical pixel I can get.

If this is really important to you (as it is for me), try Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...). First just installed it to move the tabs to the side, but now I gotten so used to tabs in a logical tree that anything else is a big hassle to use.

Or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ as an alternative.

Interesting. How is it better?

Also an user of Sideberry, from my experience it just works a little bit better than TST.

For me, I really liked how it has "panel" functionality that also let me replace Simple Tab Groups, and how nicely that interacts with Multi-Account Containers. I have a panel for work, and when I'm done with work I can switch to another panel for another task and no longer have to look at my work tabs - then the next day I can have just those in my tab bar again.

Tree style tabs used to get very laggy when you have lots of tabs open. Sideberry performed much faster. So I switched to it.

This is the same order of improvement over plain tabs, that tabs were over 1-page-per-window. All browsers should come with this by default, and the fact that they don't is proof to me that UI innovation is stagnating.

Edge and Vivaldi are the two that I know of that have it as an option built in. Opera has a sidebar and uses workspaces to organize tabs now, but they used to have vertical tabs in the past.

In about:config, set "browser.proton.enabled" to false. I don't know if this will work in future versions, but it works in v89.

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Thank you for this. While searching I also found `browser.uidensity`. Setting it to 1 makes the whole UI more compact, which gives some more vertical pixels for the website window.

Wow, browser.proton.enabled and browser.uidensity gives me 1 more pixel than Safari. This is awesome.

Thanks for suggesting setting browser.uidensity to 1, it actually makes bars a lot more compact!

This also fixes Firefox not using the Windows 10 accent color in the titlebar[1], thanks!

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266

It won't work for long. Better start looking for userChrome.css fixes.

The only one I've seen so far is Firefox-UI-Fix. In my opinion, it looks like it's halfway between the old and new UI. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/

I also use https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to tame the insane vertical (and horizontal!) padding. Might be worth checkout it out.

You can also re-enable compact mode in 89 by toggling browser.compactmode.show in about:config. Hope they don't remove it entirely.

In that case, install the Tree Style Tabs[1] extension, disable the tab bar altogether, and get back 100% of it :)

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

EDIT: Ah, looks like capableweb beat me to it by a fraction of a minute!

How do you disable the tab bar?

See https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snipp....

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...

There is also browser.compactmode.show set to true that will allow compact density. Unfortunately that won't reduce the padding around bookmark entries. For that can go to https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/

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