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by FeepingCreature 1182 days ago
No single removal changed Firefox's market share to any significant effect, but it's death of a thousand cuts. Eventually, they're going to have to start doing things again that gain them users rather than lose them.

(Happy Waterfox user; my "one feature" was multirow tabs, and the general betrayal of the Quantum rewrite. "We will add these features back as extensions" my unsupported ass. Bring back UI modding. PS: Same goes for Firefox Android, which I've thankfully found an old APK for.)
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pr0zac 1182 days ago
You can still mod Firefox's UI pretty easily, its all defined by CSS files and not too difficult to customize. I for instance actually did the opposite of what you wanted and completely got rid of the tab bar cause I use Sidebery for tab management: https://i.imgur.com/cHz1clI.png Theres a whole subreddit for it even: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

This repo (and that subreddit) has all the info on setting stuff up in Firefox: https://github.com/aris-t2/customcssforfx and even has a CSS example for doing multi-tab lines: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/blob/master/curren...

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FeepingCreature 1182 days ago
Sure, but every time I try this it has terrible UX compared to TMP, particularly around scrolling and dragging.

(Also Firefox breaks it once a year or so.)

Not sure how much this is lack of developer effort vs lack of support from Firefox.

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bacchusracine 1182 days ago
>Same goes for Firefox Android, which I've thankfully found an old APK for.

Not sure how much this will help you, I don't know which features you're keeping the older version of Firefox Android around for. But have you looked into Iceraven browser?

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

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