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Comment by jdlshore | Hacker News Reader

Agreed, the constant negativity (especially here on HN) gets very tiresome.

For what it's worth, Firefox has been my daily driver for years and I'm very happy with it. The new tab design doesn't bother me at all.

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I don't take it as negativity, per se, but in my opinion more often there are people expressing concern. For many of us, Firefox began as a relationship with Netscape; over the years this has been a living and evolving relationship, with a lot of positive things, but also a few more significant negative steps back in a direction that the community/userbase find to be antithetical to the spirit of what the project is/was/claims to be.

Thank you for this reply, and trip down memory lane; I hope it is well received. I'm not trying to be a contrarian, I just wanted to interrupt this glass of Metamucil to share an alternative viewpoint.

And Firefox has been my daily driver for years and the new tab design was enough to finally push me over to Tree Style Tabs full-time. I like everything about Firefox, except for the management practices of Mozilla and the constant unnecessary UI meddling that trashes my userChrome.css practically every update. It's very hard to guess overall user sentiment from anecdata.

Speaking of Tree Style Tabs –

Does anyone have an up-to-date user CSS that hides the top tabs and moves the toolbar up into the dead space? I used to have a snippet that worked, but it broke a few dozen versions ago.

Here's what I'm using: https://gist.github.com/Freaky/b5cd807d518a176298c1d0e612dcc...

This is gold, thanks!

Here's my version for Windows. It keeps the window buttons and removes the empty space on top.

https://gist.github.com/eproxus/f95c2d2bd0f9b8f5d2b6f464e27c...

On the subject of Tree Style Tabs, I've found Sidebery[0] to be a great replacement. Significantly less buggy, and more feature rich (panels, etc).

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

This is golden; seems to consolidate and in at least one case improve the best parts of at least 3 of my addons from what I've seen and I have not seen half of all settings yet... You have just made my day.

The internet is basically a bunch of people living a super comfortable life, whining about trivial shit.

I'll be positive. I like Firefox so much that i actively avoid it. I still need to keep it because some sites do not support other browsers.

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