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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org>
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Subject: Re: Firefox vertical tabs
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On 6 Mar 2025 at 23:35:48 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

> On 6 Mar 2025 at 23:34:21 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6 Mar 2025 at 20:23:00 GMT, "TimH" <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6 Mar 2025 at 7:12:42 pm GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
>>> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 5 Mar 2025 at 17:02:41 GMT, "TimH" <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5 Mar 2025 at 4:08:33 pm GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
>>>>> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 5 Mar 2025 at 12:10:11 GMT, "TimH" <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm just trying this out - as someone said, Tree Style Tab is great, but the
>>>>>>> fewer extensions the better - but I can't see a way to reduce the space
>>>>>>> between tabs, which seems excessive. Am I missing something?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Space between tabs is zero for me. https://imgur.com/a/M3iCvyY
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not sure which options might affect that tbh.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry - I put that really badly! Should have said: I normally use Tree Style
>>>>> Tab but am trying out the new built-in Firefox vertical tabs. That's what has
>>>>> the excessive space! (I thought for a moment you'd uncovered a whole screenful
>>>>> of options i'd missed :)
>>>> 
>>>> Ah! Yeah, they're terrible. In basically the same way as the Edge and
>>>> Safari ones are terrible.
>>> 
>>> I thought at least there might be a way to enable but hide the built-in
>>> vertical tabs, and carry on using TST, so as to get rid of the horizontal tab
>>> bar, but even that seems impossible. Grr.
>> 
>> https://superuser.com/questions/1424478/can-i-hide-native-tabs-at-the-top-of-firefox
>> 
>> is what I followed. Works perfectly. On the Mac the profiles directory
>> is in your user Library, Application Support, Firefox, Profiles. If you
>> have more than one folder there, check up a level for profiles.ini and
>> work out which one is Default.
>> 
>>     Cheers - Jaimie
> 
> My userChrome.css:
> 
> }

.... apparently got eaten by Usenapp. Interesting! Let me try that again
quoted:

<p class="level1">/* Hide the top tab bar */
</p><p
class="level1">#main-window[tabsintitlebar="true"]:not([extradragspace=
"true"]) #TabsToolbar {
</p><p class="level1"> opacity: 0;
</p><p
class="level1"> pointer-events: none;
</p><p class="level1">}
</p><p
class="level1">#main-window:not([tabsintitlebar="true"]) #TabsToolbar
{
</p><p class="level1">   visibility: collapse !important;
</p><p
class="level1">}
</p><p class="level1">
</p><p class="level1">/* Hide
the sidebar top label */
</p><p class="level1">#sidebar-header {
</p><p
class="level1"> display: none;
</p>> }
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