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Combine the good performance with great add-ons like Multi Account Containers, and Tree Style Tabs, and you have a great browser.

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Or instead of Tree Style Tabs, using Simple Tab Groups which I find has far better UX:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

It's good to see STG praised here.

I context switch often, and am so much more productive because of this plugin.

Nowadays it seems that everybody switched to Sidebery, the tree-style tabs add-on that Tree Style Tabs always wanted to be.

the user.js file is a very underrated feature as well. i have a few computers and some of them are dual boot which means i have a lot of firefox installs so its great just being able to drop in the user.js file and have everything set up the way i like it

I have a userChrome.css to hide the default tabs. What do you have in your user.js and have you automated the install of it?

Here is a reference for the userChrome.css to hide the default tabs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268077

heres a few general ones. on my linux computers i have a bash script to install firefox, then it sets up symlink of the user.js file from my own config folder to the default .config folder. on windows i just manually add it

  user_pref("browser.aboutConfig.showWarning", "false");    // disable about:config warning
  user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3);    // restore previous session
  user_pref("browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed", "true");    // cycles tabs in recently used order
  user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", "false");    // dont ask to save passwords
  user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", "false");    // disable address bar suggestions
  user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", "true");    // enable custom css

this is the only css i could find that i like since it keeps the window controls as well, although since a recent update, theyre just showing as a white box now but they still works https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/458#issuecomment-9...

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