Issue with Firefox after update...

[Turn7]

Firefox just auto updated and now I cannot get the view I had before.

This is what I have now :


What I previously, didnt incude the horrid unnecessasary second row of tab headers....

How do I get rid of them ?

For reference, the red circled area is what I want to lose...

[xeny]

Possibly I'm missing something. Can you indicate where the tab headers are that you want to keep?

[dapprman]

Not that i would want to, but i didn't think you could remove tabs inn the previous version and they moved it from under the Bookmark Toolbar to below the top menu a fair while back.

[NMNeil]

Close out Firefox and reopen with just a single tab. Right click on the top of the screen but not on the tab. You will get the option to remove the menu bar or customize the menus.
Also at the top right of the screen there will be 3 horizontal bars. Click on that to change all your options. While you're there turn off the automatic updates so it doesn't happen again.

[xeny]

NMNeil said:

While you're there turn off the automatic updates so it doesn't happen again.

Sound advice - why not download some malware onto your computer while you're about it? An out of date web browser is probably the easiest way to get something nasty on the typical PC, and it's not as if FF's design is amongst the most secure anyway.

[NMNeil]

xeny said:

Sound advice - why not download some malware onto your computer while you're about it? An out of date web browser is probably the easiest way to get something nasty on the typical PC, and it's not as if FF's design is amongst the most secure anyway.

Web browsers won't stop malware. But it could be a lot worse; it could be a Microsoft product

[Turn7]

NMNeil said:

Close out Firefox and reopen with just a single tab. Right click on the top of the screen but not on the tab. You will get the option to remove the menu bar or customize the menus.
Also at the top right of the screen there will be 3 horizontal bars. Click on that to change all your options. While you're there turn off the automatic updates so it doesn't happen again.

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[I am alright Jack]

^^ Doesn't work. You can't remove the tab bar which I agree is a bloody nuisance.

[NMNeil]

The last update basically re-arranged everything to Mozilla's liking, and made it almost impossible to change.
And it used to be only Microsoft who did that.

[Stigproducts]

This update is irritating me too, because the tabs aren't actually attached to the page like they used to be. The one you are on is a very slightly less grey colour than the rest of them, making figuring out what you are looking at difficult. Why do these bellends feel the need to mess with everything all the time?

[NMNeil]

Stigproducts said:

This update is irritating me too, because the tabs aren't actually attached to the page like they used to be. The one you are on is a very slightly less grey colour than the rest of them, making figuring out what you are looking at difficult. Why do these bellends feel the need to mess with everything all the time?

And others wonder why I disable updates to stop this crap happening.
Try this
Type, about:config into the search box.
Get through all the warnings
At the next page type Proton into the search box
Find the entry; browser.proton.enabled.
Double click on it to make it 'false'
It should fix it.

[Stigproducts]

That's better!. Thanks for taking the time to help.

[I am alright Jack]

Yes many thanks, that's also removed the large gaps between entries in the favourites menu that also appeared with the latest awful update.

[Turn7]

NMNeil said:

Stigproducts said:

This update is irritating me too, because the tabs aren't actually attached to the page like they used to be. The one you are on is a very slightly less grey colour than the rest of them, making figuring out what you are looking at difficult. Why do these bellends feel the need to mess with everything all the time?

And others wonder why I disable updates to stop this crap happening.
Try this
Type, about:config into the search box.
Get through all the warnings
At the next page type Proton into the search box
Find the entry; browser.proton.enabled.
Double click on it to make it 'false'
It should fix it.

You Sir, are a star!
Many thanks for the help.

[I am alright Jack]

I still wish the tab bar could be removed and made optional though.

[Brainpox]

NMNeil said:

And others wonder why I disable updates to stop this crap happening.
Try this
Type, about:config into the search box.
Get through all the warnings
At the next page type Proton into the search box
Find the entry; browser.proton.enabled.
Double click on it to make it 'false'
It should fix it.

I believe that option will be disabled in the next major update. Hopefully they make improvements in the mean time.

[Mr Pointy]

Anyone know a quick fix to remove the Tabs On Top arrangement & get back to having them below the address bar? I found this site but haven't tried it yet:

https://www.codehaven.co.uk/firefox/firefox-89-tab...

[dapprman]

Stigproducts said:

This update is irritating me too, because the tabs aren't actually attached to the page like they used to be. The one you are on is a very slightly less grey colour than the rest of them, making figuring out what you are looking at difficult. Why do these bellends feel the need to mess with everything all the time?

That could be down to your theme - for me the active tab is surrounded by a black box, the rest merge in to the background with no visible lines.

[TX1]

NMNeil said:

Stigproducts said:

This update is irritating me too, because the tabs aren't actually attached to the page like they used to be. The one you are on is a very slightly less grey colour than the rest of them, making figuring out what you are looking at difficult. Why do these bellends feel the need to mess with everything all the time?

And others wonder why I disable updates to stop this crap happening.
Try this
Type, about:config into the search box.
Get through all the warnings
At the next page type Proton into the search box
Find the entry; browser.proton.enabled.
Double click on it to make it 'false'
It should fix it.

Thanks that sorted it and back to normal, was doing my head in as could not work out what was looking different but I knew it was not the usual.

[Mr Pointy]

dapprman said:

Stigproducts said:

This update is irritating me too, because the tabs aren't actually attached to the page like they used to be. The one you are on is a very slightly less grey colour than the rest of them, making figuring out what you are looking at difficult. Why do these bellends feel the need to mess with everything all the time?

That could be down to your theme - for me the active tab is surrounded by a black box, the rest merge in to the background with no visible lines.

He's talking about not having Tabs On Top which didn't use to be fixed in FF but now is. I much prefer the Tabs Bar to be below the Address Bar, hence my question. I'm going to try the user.css script I linked to & see how it goes.