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Can't add extension, just get a throbber that never stops

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ian179
ian179

I'm on FF 154.0. The power went out here and when it came back and I booted the desktop computer something had changed in FF.

I used to see the active tab as green in the tab bar and yellow for the rest, but now they're all gray until I mouse over the bar and only then does it turn green/yellow.

I struggled with this for many hours trying many //active tab color// solutions I found in searches but nothing got it back to my old behavior.

So as a last resort I tried adding the Firefox Color extension, but when I click Add to Firefox it just turns into a throbber that never changes so it doesn't install. I'm stuck!

Frustrated!!

I'm on FF 154.0. The power went out here and when it came back and I booted the desktop computer something had changed in FF. I used to see the active tab as green in the tab bar and yellow for the rest, but now they're all gray until I mouse over the bar and only then does it turn green/yellow. I struggled with this for many hours trying many //active tab color// solutions I found in searches but nothing got it back to my old behavior. So as a last resort I tried adding the Firefox Color extension, but when I click Add to Firefox it just turns into a throbber that never changes so it doesn't install. I'm stuck! Frustrated!!

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amoun
amoun
  • Top 10 Contributor

If you research [userChrome.css] you can format all colors, text and sizing to your design.

The green and yellow I've never seen, sounds like a theme or a system setting. Do you have green and yellow on other apps.

There is also this option https://color.firefox.com/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=theme-footer-link

ian179
ian179 Question owner

My userChrome.css [userChrome.css -> .mozilla/firefox/o35uvffr.ian-1504212690420/chrome/userChrome.css] has been this for ages but it no longer has any effect:

  1. TabsToolbar .tabbrowser-tab:is([selected],[multiselected]) label {

color: red  !important; } .tabbrowser-tab[selected] .tab-content { 

 background-color: #CCFFCC !important; }

.tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected]) .tab-content { 

 background-color: #FFFFCC !important; }

.tabbrowser-tab:not([selected="true"]):not(:hover) .tab-content { 

 background-color: #E0E0E0 !important; }

tab-background[selected]{ background: #f00 !important }

jbr
jbr
  • Top 10 Contributor

For changes in the client code tweaks look around https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ — they will know what updates are necessary. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/1vto2lx/ff_154_broke_tab_text_color/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/1vw2xsc/firefox_tab_borders_broken_since_last_update/

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