What happened to adding extra "empty" toolbars?
Since the Australis UI was introduced I have been unable to find any information on what happened to being able to add extra or "empty" toolbars as their also known, and no one seems to have asked this question. There was an addon called "Extra Toolbars" which addressed the problem wonderfully, but it hasn't been updated since June 2014 and a search for both the addon and the developer come up with nothing. The developer has other projects and a website, but it appears as if he's decided to discontinue the Extra Toolbars addon for whatever reason. I am aware that the "Classic Them Restorer" addon allows for extra toolbars to be added, but having the multitude of other features is unnecessary for me. If any of you know of an addon or maybe a browser registry tweak that restores the toolbar customization, I'd love to hear about it. This is more of a question about where is our ability to customize the browser headed and what's the point of keeping Firefox open source if Mozilla has the final say at the end of the day?
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The only way I know of to get an extra toolbar is the Classic Theme Restorer extension.
Do you have a special reason to add extra toolbars (you have a lot of buttons) or do you want extra vertical estate for a lightweight theme (Persona)?
cor-el said
The only way I know of to get an extra toolbar is the Classic Theme Restorer extension. Do you have a special reason to add extra toolbars (you have a lot of buttons) or do you want extra vertical estate for a lightweight theme (Persona)?
I was mainly using the extra toolbars for personas. Using the Classic Theme Restorer made my bookmarks toolbar disappear, though. Not sure what happened there. I'm currently in the process of transferring an old profile to a new computer and my old profile still has toolbars since before the Australis UI update, so I guess you could call them native toolbars. Although the transfer isn't working out the way it should what with the new files I overwrite with the old ones being reset to default. I just think it's stupid that with most of the themes needing an "extra vertical estate" (I like that definition) such as extra toolbars, Mozilla goes ahead and takes away the only thing that made them visible and not needing a "home" page like in Chrome. You'd think there'd be more protest.
To see more of the Persona you can set a min-height to the navigator-toolbox with code in the userChrome.css file or by using the Stylish extension.
Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#navigator-toolbox { min-height: 200px !important; box-shadow: ThreeDShadow 0 -1px inset; }
The customization files userChrome.css (user interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the Firefox profile folder.
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
- Create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist
- Use a plain text editor like Notepad to create a (new) userChrome.css file in the chrome folder (file name is case sensitive)
- Paste the code in the userChrome.css file in the editor window
- Make sure that the userChrome.css file starts with the default @namespace line
- Make sure that you select "All files" and not "Text files" when you save the file via "Save file as" in the text editor as userChrome.css.
Otherwise Windows may add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with a not working userChrome.css.txt file