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Firefox UI is incredibly frustrating,so I made it like the old days of Chrome

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[1] http://facechance.com/about/ [2] http://facechance.com/bingge

Someone somewhere thinks it is ropey, as it is in the DNS-based blocklist(s) our office subscribes too (via CloudFlair's DNS service IIRC).

Scam? Or HN design iconoclast?

Related submissions by the author of this site (showdead on): https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lovefeature

Make of that what you will.

I don't know about that. Seems like it only tweaked the UI, not the UX, and i find the official one more visually appealing.

Official UI style is a complete garbage. They killed the most common thing that I as user need to do, and that's quickly identifying which tab is active. It doesn't stand out at all (default style after creating a new profile):

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png

No background difference, nothing. It's not visible when I set monitor to low brightness during the night.

Most installable themes are similarly non-distinct. I had to go through install/uninstall loop of around 15 themes before finding one that has strong contrast on the selected tab:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png

That's what happens when things have to look pretty, instead of being usable.

Agreed, the active tab should be a different color, so it can be distinguished at a glance, without wasting brain cycles.

But they also ruined the window itself in a similar way. It no longer honors the OS theme, so I can't have the title bar be a different color for the focused window. Another waste of brain cycles trying to figure out which window I'm in.

Maddening. I went back to Chrome when they did this a few releases ago. That, and the fact that I have to drill down into submenus for common tasks that should be available on the main menus.

In your screenshot the active tab is easily distinguished to me. It has a border around it and appears raised above the other tabs.

Any chance you would share which theme it ils?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console...

Even better now, with OP's CSS:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png

Now just some way to decrease the height of the tab bar, and I'm happy again.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, you can’t tweak it to customize the keyboard shortcuts. For any extension (due to the post-2016 API), the changes only take effect for a given tab after the tab has loaded. Which excludes reloading. So there will be noticeable lags where they don’t work.

FF's horrible bookmark interface is what has kept me away from it.

Great, nice trick with the perspective transform! Thanks!

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