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Firefox provides, by far, more options for customizing the UI then any other browser. Don’t like the redesign? Then download Sidebery and have tree-style tab navigation, or change userChrome.css to remove tabs completely. Don’t act like Firefox has personally assaulted you just because you don’t like their redesign.

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or change userChrome.css

The fact that you now need to set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in order for userChrome.css to work, and that it has "legacy" in the name, is already a sign that route might disappear in the future.

More "then[sic] any other browser" is a really low bar, especially when the others are far worse.

This is an excellent, key point.

I use Waterfox these days, and occasionally Firefox if there's a problem.

It's now significantly harder to customise either of them to the way I used to like pre-Quantum Firefox. A few more steps down this path and I won't be able to at all.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork...

Firefox provides, by far, fewer options for customizing the UX than the same browser a few years ago. Don't act like that loss of control is irrelevant just because you don't use it.

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