Firefox 'improvements' send me to Chrome

The latest Firefox 91 features double spaced bookmark menu which runs off the bottom of the page. Despite many complaints they say this 'feature' is permanent and a temporary fix no longer works. Is anyone else wondering why Firefox can't leave a perfectly good product alone? I've had enough of constant meddling and scrolling up and down the menu. After 14 years or so I'm off to Chrome, much as I dislike Google.

I'm of the same mindset, but I noticed other browsers I use (Edge on Win10, and Brave on another system) have done the same thing. I guess its to do with these higher resolution displays people have.

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

After 14 years or so I'm off to Chrome, much as I dislike Google.

If you dislike Google give Edge browser a try its chrome based (you no doubt already knew that)

Edit to add - if you also dislike Microsoft ignore this post.

Edited by Jack_Hackett (Thu 12-Aug-21 18:35:56)

If you are prepared to edit your userchrome.css file you can get the spacing down (to single spaced for all of the menus and spaced at a line and a half for drop downs from the bookmarks bar).

You need to set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets setting in the Config to true, then add the following to the userchrome.css file:

menupopup :-moz-any(menu,menuitem) {
margin-top:1px!important;
margin-bottom:1px!important;
padding-top:0px!important;
padding-bottom:0px!important;
}
#bookmarksMenu menupopup :-moz-any(menu,menuitem) {
margin-top:1px!important;
margin-bottom:1px!important;
}
menupopup :-moz-any(menu:first-child,menuitem:first-child) {margin-top:0px!important;}
menupopup :-moz-any(menu:last-child,menuitem:last-child) {margin-bottom:0px!important;}

:root {
--arrowpanel-menuitem-margin: 0 !important;
--arrowpanel-menuitem-padding-block: 4px !important;
--arrowpanel-menuitem-padding: 4px !important;
}

Still giving sensible spacing in v92 beta but for how long who knows.

20:58, edited for typo.

Edited by GonePostal (Thu 12-Aug-21 20:58:52)

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I'm of the same mindset, but I noticed other browsers I use (Edge on Win10, and Brave on another system) have done the same thing. I guess its to do with these higher resolution displays people have.

More likely pandering to people with fat fingers using Firefox on a mobile.

Thanks! Useful tip, long may it work.

Thanks very much everyone for your advice. I'll have a go at GonePostal's programming although I'm well out of my depth here, otherwise I'll give Edge a go.

Hi!

I've discover the Vivaldi browser and find it extremely well made. It includes calendar (which supports Google Calendar) and email functionality. I would highly recommend it over FF, Chrome or Edge.

HTH,

The most comprehensive 'fix' for the Firefox GUI "improvements" I've seen is contained in this Github article. It requires a fair bit of work to copy the required folders and files into your Firefox profile, but there's a lot of effort put into this 'fix'...

The ultimate fate of all open-source software is death by too many cooks. Most of whom are by definition amateurs. Always was, always will be.

Ability to code is not the same thing as being a programmer, and even being a good programmer does nor put necessarily mean the person is a good program designer. Still less a good system designer.

Coding is the easiest part of programming. Programming to deal with unexpected events and fail gracefully is the skill, allied to being able to find the bug in tens of thousands of lines of code that may well have been written by someone else. (Though the latter can be easier than finding it when you wrote it yourself).