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by robbyking 1850 days ago
One of my biggest complaints about Firefox is how much work I have to do in my userChrome.css to make it look nice. My current one is almost 400 lines and it's mostly adding separators/element padding, changing border radiuses and disabling hover and focus styles.
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Same. Mine is similarly large [1], with lots of legacy/dead code and comments. Increasingly ceasing to be fun to maintain.

OTOH, the only other browser that lets you tweak its chrome with your CSS is AFAIK Vivaldi.

[1] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...

I just use MaterialFox (https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox), which makes Firefox look more or less like Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/gYwrGjK.png

Edit: Welp, the new Firefox update kinda broke MaterialFox: https://i.imgur.com/biLz0e2.png

All that being said, just using the new UI out of the box actually looks great to me too: https://i.imgur.com/WUaiRUV.png

I never wanted a carbon copy of Chrome, just something that looked good, so I'm glad to see Firefox provide a nicer default experience and add its own unique style. It's actually pretty similar to MaterialFox anyway, aside from the "floating" tab style and slightly higher vertical space usage.

Mind sharing yours? Prior to this update I'd been hobbling along but my productivity is taking a hit.