tortious / minimal-functional-fox

A minimal, yet functional Firefox userChrome configuration.

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minimal-functional-fox

If you are looking for a minimal, yet functional Firefox userChrome stylesheet...you might like this one!

Preview

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Features

  • Mimimal bloat
  • Easy way to quickly change colors, tab dimensions, paddings to your liking through CSS variables
  • Pinned tabs are re-styled to standout
  • Tab list underneath the navigator area
  • Centered URL bar, with a thinner, centered results list
  • Debloated history, and bookmarks sidebars
  • Fix for buggy shadows on Linux

Instructions

  • Make sure that you have enabled the userChrome.css option

    1. Go to the address about:config in Firefox
    2. Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
    3. Confirm the option is set to true
  • Make sure that you have the Dark theme enabled

    1. Go to the address about:addons
    2. Select Themes
    3. Enable the Dark theme if not already enabled
  • Copy the contents of this repository to .mozilla/firefox/<your-profile-name>/chrome/

    • will be a directory ending with '-release' and have a bunch of files in it
    • If there isn't a chrome folder, you can just go ahead and create one
  • To tune different parameters like tab height, url bar padding etc, modify the CSS variables towards the top of the file.

  • If your new tab button looks too tiny/squished, check out this fix

  • Optional but recommended

    1. Select the Customize option from the hamburger menu
    2. Remove all items except for:
    • Forward button
    • Back button
    • Downloads button
  • You can find the new tab page extension here

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A minimal, yet functional Firefox userChrome configuration.

License:MIT License


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