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Hi there! Since FF 91 all menu items have an incredible vertical spacing, the menu item is twice as high as before. This is a nuisance especially in the bookmark menus. I would like to have the narrow menu item spacing back, without being urged to install an AddOn or to learn CSS programming or to file a bug in this peculiar BugZilla system. Think of our family of USERS, not developers.

Yes, I understand the circumstances of free software. Yes, I see it is necessary to keep up with modern UI design and the so-called technical progress. The FF 91 UI changes slightly towards what we expect to get in Windows 11. Fine! Also, it is absolutely clear that the new menu line spacing adds more comfort to the FF usability ... on tablet PCs and smart phones. But NOT for desktop users.

As far as I know, Microsofts plans for Windows 11 still include a setting to keep the old narrow menu item height. Mozilla should do so, too. I hope the developers will take care to not lose contact to their users.

Issue 1: When I open up the firefox settings, I cannot tell in the slightest what is and isn't checked off because nothing appears in the checkboxes. They're just empty squares regardless of whether something is checked off or not. I've attached a screenshot below.

Issue 2: I really, really hate the new proton tabs. I had them disabled by disabling proton, but I guess I forgot to disable auto-updates, because I just opened Firefox to find that they're back, much to my displeasure. It's difficult for me to distinguish tabs from each other at a glance now as they are all the same color with no borders *and* having 'autoplay disabled' and 'playing' and stuff like that in TINY all caps font below the tab label is NOT USEFUL. It is distracting to the eye, and I have to squint and lean closer to be able to read what the heck it's even saying. This is shitty for nearsighted people like me. Moreover, at a glance it is IMPOSSIBLE now to tell which tab sound is coming from. This is a huge step backwards in functionality and accessibility.

I wasn't using mozilla for aesthetics - I was using it because it functioned and was more stable / less of a memory hog in my experience than chrome, and I appreciated the ease and convenience of syncing across different computers as well as the built in password management. However, I question whether I can continue to use this browser if you're going to prioritize aesthetics over functionality and user preference.

Seriously - that the tabs DO NOT CONNECT to the page is itself distracting and weird, *but also* that the rest of the tabs blend together and have extra tiny unreadable text rather than the infinitely more distinguishable audio symbol that indicated which tabs had sound playing before is so terrible.

So.... tl;dr: HOW DO I GET OLD TABS BACK?

Hello! Firefox turned off by itself and an error window appeared with the button whether I want to restore the previous session. I clicked restore sessions and a window was displayed that firefox is updating. Then firefox turned on the default start page and then I wanted to restore the previous session with the button in the "history" bar and there was no such possibility. The button did not light up. How to recover closed tabs ? Please help

I got this error-code on my homepage: 55e4-a579-582e-c5e4 and Error 400, The homepage works in Google, Edge, Opera etc but do not work in Firefox. What to do next?

G'Day,

I earlier posted with respect to getting tabs to appear below the address and search bars on the browser. I managed to solve that issue; however, the solution has produced a curious side effect.

When the browser has entered Full-Screen, the tabs-bar does not disappear and appears as it would in a normal browser window while both the address and search bars have been hidden. Is there some way to fix this?

As well, on a Windows 8.1 lap-top, using the CSS below, the very top of the browser has been cut off. It is not possible to see the browser control icons nor is the menu-bar visible.

A screen capture is attached as well as the CSS which was suggested in my earlier post about getting the tabs below the address bar.

Thanks,

Jim

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

/* TABS: bottom - Firefox 65 and later - updated for 89+ */ /* https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/browser/themes/shared/tabs.inc.css */ /* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox */

/* ROOT - VARS */ /* you can adjust the CSS variables until it looks correct */ /* you can use the Browser Toolbox to get the toolbar heights */

• |*:root {

 --tab-toolbar-navbar-overlap: 0px !important;

 --tab-min-height: 40px !important;
 --tab-min-width:  50px !important;

 --tab-caption: -5px; /* caption buttons on tab bar */
 --tab-adjust:   3px; /* adjust tab bar */

 --menubar-height: 40px; /*40px|41px=11px; caption buttons on menubar*/
 --navbar-height:  40px; /*31px*/
 --bookmarkbar-height: 26px;

 --tabbar-top: calc(var(--menubar-height) + var(--navbar-height) + var(--bookmarkbar-height) + var(--tab-adjust)); /*89+*/

}

/* in case you enable extra toolbars in full screen mode */

• |*:root[inFullscreen] {

 --tab-adjust: 3px;
 --menubar-height: 45px; /*30px*/
 --navbar-height:  45px; /*31px*/
 --bookmarkbar-height: 0px; /*26px*/
 --tabbar-top: calc(var(--menubar-height) + var(--navbar-height) + var(--bookmarkbar-height) + var(--tab-adjust)); /*89+*/

}

/* TAB BAR - below nav-bar */

1. navigator-toolbox toolbar:not(#nav-bar):not(#toolbar-menubar) {-moz-box-ordinal-group:10}
2. TabsToolbar {-moz-box-ordinal-group:1000}

1. TabsToolbar {

 display: block !important;
 position: absolute !important;

/* bottom: 0 !important; /* 68-88: BOTTOM */

 top: var(--tabbar-top);  /* 89+: TOP */
 width: 100vw !important;

}

1. tabbrowser-tabs {

 width: 100vw !important;

}

/* navigator-toolbox - PADDING */

• |*:root:not([chromehidden*="toolbar"]) #navigator-toolbox {

 padding-bottom: calc(var(--tab-min-height) + 1px) !important; /*ADJUST*/
 background-color: var(--toolbar-bgcolor) !important;

}

/* TabsToolbar with menubar and titlebar hidden - rules for Firefox 65-73 */

• |*:root[tabsintitlebar]:not([inFullscreen="true"]):not([sizemode="maximized"])

#toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar{

}

/* TABS: height */

1. tabbrowser-tabs,
2. tabbrowser-tabs > .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox,

.tabbrowser-tabs[positionpinnedtabs] > .tabbrowser-tab[pinned] {

 min-height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
 max-height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;

}

1. TabsToolbar {

 height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
 margin-bottom: 1px !important;
 box-shadow: ThreeDShadow 0 -1px inset, -moz-dialog 0 1px !important; /*OPTIONAL*/
 background-color: var(--toolbar-bgcolor) !important;
 color:            var(--toolbar-color) !important;
 z-index: 1 !important;

}

/* indicators *//*

• |*:root[privatebrowsingmode=temporary] .private-browsing-indicator {

 position: absolute !important;
 display: block !important;
 right: 0px !important;
 bottom: 0px !important;
 width: 14px !important;
 pointer-events: none !important;

}

• /

.private-browsing-indicator {display: none !important;} .accessibility-indicator {display: none !important;}

/* Indicators - HIDE *//*

• |*:root:not([accessibilitymode]) .accessibility-indicator {display: none !important}
• |*:root:not([privatebrowsingmode=temporary]) .private-browsing-indicator {display: none !important}
• /

/* Drag Space */ .titlebar-spacer[type="pre-tabs"], .titlebar-spacer[type="post-tabs"] {

 width: 20px !important;

}

/* Override vertical shifts when moving a tab */

1. navigator-toolbox[movingtab] > #titlebar > #TabsToolbar {

 padding-bottom: unset !important;

}

1. navigator-toolbox[movingtab] #tabbrowser-tabs {

 padding-bottom: unset !important;
 margin-bottom: unset !important;

}

1. navigator-toolbox[movingtab] > #nav-bar {

 margin-top: unset !important;

}

/* Hide window-controls and caption buttons on Tab Bar */

1. TabsToolbar #window-controls {display: none !important;}
2. TabsToolbar .titlebar-buttonbox-container {display: none !important;}

This is my second attempt to get some help with this problem.

When I do a web search, Firefox will place the website description of that search on top of the web address for that search. So basically it places the text for both the search findings and website address on top of each other. Look at the uploaded image and you will see what I'm talking about.

I have tried changing the font sizes and other settings to fix this but nothing works. There has to be another solution.

If I can't get it fixed, I'm going to start using another browser.

Recently (possibly because it's Firefox 91) three questions have failed to load. Ironically, this is the latest: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1349148 (asking why hyperlinks fail to load). Is it the browser or has something been done to the questions?

I'm using the latest version of Firefox on Mac High Sierra and sometimes it has the issue where the letter y is missing in the body text, but for one website, and only one, it breaks the URL https://www.optus.com.au/about/sustainability/community/donate-your-data (see screenshot) which seems odd as the URL displays correctly in the URL bar.

The latest Firefox update forces my bookmarks folder to be double spaced between bookmarks and folders making it too large for my page. I have to use the navigation arrows to access all of it's folders.. and the folders inside the folders too. When I used to open bookmarks it was about half my screen high now it's a screen and a half. I've temp returned to the previous version but would like to keep updating to keep up with security patches.

I followed something in reddit. Now I have all my accounts signed out. This issue has been going because neither for my Temporary Add-on was working nor the buttons I tested. Is there anything to do to prevent this error in the future? I am starting to hate this browser as updates kept on-going and just slowly killing my browser ( especially losing pinned tabs for my important big projects in school )

defaultPref("privacy.window.maxInnerWidth", 1000); defaultPref("privacy.window.maxInnerHeight", 1000);

Instead of 1000 what is the default value Firefox uses?

Hi everyone,

I am running Firefox 91.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 and just noticed that all my addons have been disabled and can't re-enable them.

Some of them are quite common modules such as Disconnect or Privacy Badger, so wondering what this may be.

There is a similar post on this forum dating back to 2019 and it mentioned a fix on Firefox was to be developped.

Anyone experiencing the same issue at the moment.?

Please see attached screenshot.

Kind regards,

Alex

Hi

I was able to turn off the Proton UI stuff previously via the about:config "proton" options, but in FF 91 that just got pushed via updates, this no longer seems to work.

Does anyone know if there are new switches to update in about:config in FF91 to disable this stuff or have other suggestions please?

Many thanks.

Please provide an option to revert to the smaller line spacing and the original smaller top window title vertical size. For those of us using smaller displays the new sizes in Firefox make it much less friendly, and inconsistent with other software on the same PC. Thanks!

Hi there, I am coming back to Firefox after about 10 years. I would really like to customise how TABS work because I find the default behaviour disorientating.

Can you help me with the following? 1) I would like the tab bar to ALWAYS be shown, even if there is only one tab. 2) I would like the (x) to close tabs to always be shown, not just when you hover over them with the mouse. I find this confusing because I don't know where the close button is until i mouse over the tab; since the size of the tabs is always different & the border between tabs is hard to see. or if there was some way to keep tabs to a standard width that would be welcome too.

Are these things possible?

When I upgraded to v91, the bookmarks menu disappeared. There is a blank row where it used to be. If I show only on new tab, the blank row appears on a new tab. My default is to show always.

The bookmarks menu contains all of the stuff it did before and can be accessed via the main Bookmarks command. But it's missing from the row under the main command row containing URL address field, home, etc.

I can't drag anything new to the blank row from the address field.

How do I make the bookmarks menu reappear?

Since the most recent update, Mozilla Firefox shows screen errors on many websites. Same after reinstall. All sites appear OK in Chrome, Opera, Tor, etc.

Please send instructions for fix.

Thanks

Hello, after update 91.0.1 on my Mac (iOS 10.15.7), the page is all white - I have lost all the color boxes that are usually are around words like "update" "buy" "send", etc. The top bar that used to be colored is also white. How can I get back the colors? Thanks for your help.

On Monday (8/16/2021) I started Firefox and all PDF links opened in its viewer. This was strange since I always have these files set to open in a third party viewer since I have to view the files while using Firefox to search related data. I checked the settings and they were set properly. I tried changing the settings to other options as well as other readers and none of them work.

I went on line and tried ever suggestion that I could find without any luck. I have reset Firefox to it original state and the issue continues.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Carl