You can change the density of Firefox's UI in about:config by setting "browser.uidensity" between 0 to 2, and it applies immediately!
Crossposted another Reddit user's post: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1dso5sz/easy_trick_to_make_firefox_compact_1_in_firefoxs/
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It's 0-2 and it's changed by the Density from the "Customize Toolbar" page. 0 is Normal, 1 is Compact (not supported), 2 is Touch.
So this is actually fake news.
Wow.
For the more advanced, you can also mess around with the userChrome.css file. To create it open a text editor and save the file as userChrome.css in the \Chrome folder in your Firefox profile folder* (make sure to restart Firefox to apply the changes)
To enable the file, enter about:config in the address bar, then accept the warning if it appears. Search for
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheetsand double-click it to set it totrue.*enter
about:supportin the address bar, or click on the Help menu > More Troubleshooting Information, then scroll to the Profile Folder line and click on Open Folder. Usually it'sC:\Users\~USERNAME~\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\~PROFILENAME~*Note: the first 2 lines about tab height might not work if you don't have the Playing/Muted text line in tabs disabled. To disable that line go to about:config, search for
browser.tabs.secondaryTextUnsupportedLocales, and add,en(or the relevant language that you're using in your system) at the end of the value for it then click Enter and restart Firefox to apply the change.Here's the userChrome I use (compiled from different sources)
Got a screenshot? very curious to see how it looks but too lazy to test it irl
Sure thing, here it is in a new profile, though for some reason I couldn't get the tab height changes to work without using the
browser.tabs.secondaryTextUnsupportedLocalessettingOh that looks clean, thanks!
Yeah personally I set the tab height in my userChrome file
@[email protected] Nice, thanks for sharing, you can also crosspost it to ![email protected] or ![email protected]
I'm long past that, I've gotten LOTS of downvotes from cross-posting to too many Firefox communities, because they show up in the feed multiple times for users I think.