In Firefox 157, how to revert back to the look of Firefox 156 or earlier?

Hi

Have you tried the returning Compact Mode? I think you may find that it will help.

Hi Have you tried the returning Compact Mode? I think you may find that it will help.

Hi

I checked and saw it is still in Compact Mode (and has become so non-compact).

I don't know why Mozilla did this terrible re-design. Now, each tab is consuming about the space of 2 tabs, on my vertical tab bar (and it is in Compact Mode).

Not to mention the ugly look.

I hope they add a 'Good Old look' option, soon. Or kindly fix this.

Hi

I would not recommend that.

You may want to try this theme - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/firefox-proton/

Try this: about:config browser.nova.enabled < change to disabled

This worked beautifully; it reverted Firefox 157 to the good old look.

Hope they at Mozilla don't kill this browser.nova.disabled option in future versions (though I really fear they will kill it sooner or later).

If anything, they should remove this terrible Nova thing.

Hi I would not recommend that. You may want to try this theme - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/firefox-proton/

Thanks, but this theme (or any other theme) is not the solution to this new, fundamental GUI problem. Not even close to a partial solution. Though I did test it, to no avail.

Hi Alex

Yes, I would expect that about:config preference to. e removed in the future, which is why I recommend that you do not use it.

Try this: about:config browser.nova.enabled < change to disabled WARNING from the moderator team: Changing Firefox preferences from the about:config page can sometimes break Firefox or cause strange behavior. You should only do this if you know what you're doing. Please read Firefox advanced customization and configuration options to learn more.

This assumes we have access to `about:config`, which isn't the case on most corporate devices.

We need an official option in the settings menu.

Firefox guys, how can you do such a terrible thing to us the users, even in compact mode the spacing between vertical tabs is huge. I have to scroll double the distance compare to before to look for my other tabs. I guess some users will like the new appearance but I agree with Alex in my opinion is awful.