firefox-csshacks VS user.js

Not aware there was a "Mac version" of MrOtherGuy's 'tabs_on_bottom.css' userstyle... or are you using another userstyle from another author?

https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/autohide_toolbox.css (edited)

/* Source file https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/tree/master/chrome/tabs_on_bottom.css made available under Mozilla Public License v. 2.0 See the above repository for updates as well as full license text. */

I'm trying to create a flexible status text toolbar item like used to exist (here's an example from my current setup in Pale Moon), which I can place into the "status bar" that I created using MrOtherGuy's "fake status bar w bookmarkbar" code.

I can't figure out how to solve the issue even though I found a possible culprit, it might be related to the tabs full width code.

/* address bar on pop-ups - based on https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/show_toolbars_in_popup_windows.css */ :root[chromehidden~="toolbar"] :is( /* .browser-toolbar, */ #nav-bar, #urlbar-container, .chromeclass-toolbar-additional ) { display: flex !important; /* visibility: visible !important; */ }

You might want to check out styles that have been updated recently, like those.

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.