Was tinkering with userchrome and sidebery this day and it got me thinking how others has their firefox customized. Let's bring the fun back to firefox. Share your screenshots. :)
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I used sidebery and edited the userchrome.css using guides from r/FirefoxCSS
Sleek and beautiful. And judging from that desktop, you've got a pretty big monitor.
Thanks. The monitor is an LG DualUp. It is the best productivity monitor I've ever owned. So much that within 3 weeks of buying one, I had to buy a second.
Why is there a SEARCH bar next to the bar where you can search anyway? How did you get that bar on the left with icons?
also privacy issues with sending every keystroke in my address bar to a search engine
You can switch search engines through the address bar too.
Why is there a SEARCH bar next to the bar where you can search anyway?
Muscle memory I guess. I associate the main bar with typing in websites. While the smaller one for search. That’s how I’ve been doing it for years.
The icons are pinned tabs using sideberry and CSS from r/FirefoxCSS
I installed that Sideberry, pretty neat.
For some reason, this reminds me of the old digg. I'm feeling nostalgic. :)
My UI isn't really customized, as I prefer it as clean and bloat free as possible to maximize the space for actual content. Like that extra search & side bar and all the icons are something I'd judge you for. ;)
Ehh. Different strokes, I guess. Too much minimalism for me becomes extra step. Like if remove the search bar, I would have to type in duckduckgo.com everytime I need to search. Without the pinned icons, I would have to type gmail everytime, for example. Firefox is my secondary desktop and I treat those icons as kind of like a mini app. :)
Huh? No you do not? You just type your search term into the address bar and have DDG set as your default search engine. You also do not have to type the whole address to reach a website when it is part of your history. Usually the first one or two letters are already enough.
This feels like people still using desktop icons instead of just using the start menu search.
I used sidebery and edited the userchrome.css using guides from r/FirefoxCSS
here's some guides for them:
But for reference, here are the codes for them (since Reddit appears to be down at the time of this writing)
userChrome.css
Sidebery Stylesheet
Here's the sidebery link on github
https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery
Note, to find your firefox profile folder:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_how-do-i-find-my-profile