Firefox Release 89.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by black7375 » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:49 PM UTC

therealunreal wrote: post #176

I noticed a light blue or sky blue color used as the accent color (on Windows at the moment). Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/yZUXhxf It's even used as outline on this textbox I'm typing in. I would expect it to use the system accent color, but it does not! Any ideas if I can customize just this color, without installing a different theme?

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/Tips#system...

You need userChrome.css custom. -moz-accent-color: Accent Color -moz-accent-color-foreground: Accent Color with text color

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by freddyheppell » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:50 PM UTC

megous wrote: post #229

freddyheppell wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The browser.uidensity setting is actually exposed in the UI, in the customise toolbar panel, so it seems to be an official setting that should stick around.

It no longer exposes compact option, despite it still being in many places in chrome's browser.css (if you grep browser.css there's about the same amount of references to compact and touch variants). Just why? It looks like it was not removed for any technical/maintenance reason, but just to spite users.

I am on Firefox 89 and the compact option is still exposed in the UI, in the Customise Toolbar screen.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by mmis1000 » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:52 PM UTC

foepys wrote: post #120

schrute wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems like it should be at least a customizable setting and IMO on by default. Let’s hope the HN thread full of people pointing it out helps.

Themes have control over how it looks. You can search, test, and install one directly within Firefox.

Not really, theme is currently only allowed to alter css variables(basically colors). There is a special type addon that do allow to alter the browser theme directly (behave like userChrome.css). But that requires addon signing from mozilla and enable certain hidden control in about:config. Basically not likely done by a general user.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by megous » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

freddyheppell wrote: post #242

megous wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It no longer exposes compact option, despite it still being in many places in chrome's browser.css (if you grep browser.css there's about the same amount of references to compact and touch variants). Just why? It looks like it was not removed for any technical/maintenance reason, but just to spite users.

I am on Firefox 89 and the compact option is still exposed in the UI, in the Customise Toolbar screen.

Only if you had it enabled before. It's not shown on clean install.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by freddyheppell » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

megous wrote: post #244

freddyheppell wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am on Firefox 89 and the compact option is still exposed in the UI, in the Customise Toolbar screen.

Only if you had it enabled before. It's not shown on clean install.

Ah that's why, I don't remember enabling it but I guess I did at some point.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by anoncake » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

nsonha wrote: post #64

ddek wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'll throw a fit when my 'tabs-on-the-bottom' css inevitably stops working. Why? I don't know. It's not notably better, it's just I like having the top of the content at the top of the screen. But it uses the most legacy of firefox's legacy features, so I can't see it staying around forever.

hey have you tried taskbar at the top? I know you didn't ask for suggestion but I'm guessing the taskbar is why you prefer tabs at the bottom?

Someone who went to the trouble of moving the tab bar to the bottom, which AFAIK was never a built in feature, probably also dragged around the taskbar at some point if they use an OS/DE that has one.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by forgotpwd16 » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

j_4 wrote: post #237

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #203

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What features are you talking about?

E.g. the last update removed right click -> open image, which I used all the time to view images in full screen. Now there's only an option to open the image in a new tab, which requires additional clicks to achieve the same thing.

Indeed a bad change considering you could open an image to new tab with middle-click but now there's no way to open in current tab.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:58 PM UTC

freddyheppell wrote: post #242

megous wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It no longer exposes compact option, despite it still being in many places in chrome's browser.css (if you grep browser.css there's about the same amount of references to compact and touch variants). Just why? It looks like it was not removed for any technical/maintenance reason, but just to spite users.

I am on Firefox 89 and the compact option is still exposed in the UI, in the Customise Toolbar screen.

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Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by anoncake » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:58 PM UTC

megous wrote: post #229

freddyheppell wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The browser.uidensity setting is actually exposed in the UI, in the customise toolbar panel, so it seems to be an official setting that should stick around.

It no longer exposes compact option, despite it still being in many places in chrome's browser.css (if you grep browser.css there's about the same amount of references to compact and touch variants). Just why? It looks like it was not removed for any technical/maintenance reason, but just to spite users.

Did they even replace the drop-down with a checkbox, which would at least marginally simplify the UI?

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by robbyking » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:59 PM UTC

arrayjumper wrote: post #56

I don't like the removal of tab separators. Now all the background tabs kind of merge into one large mega tab :( for example - https://i.ibb.co/p4LWvtb/2021-06-01-19-12-43-3841x169.png

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.