After going through another phase of trying other browsers due to the Australis UI mess, I'm back using Firefox like usual. However, in the process I have learned how to customize Firefox to a greater extent and fix it enough to continue using it. Maybe this will help some people who are also trying to fix the mess. So instead of switching to Pale Moon or Seamonkey, each of which have their downsides, try this first.
1) First you gotta get the Classic Theme Restorer, this does most of the work:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...themerestorer/
Just mess with the options and you should be able to customize it to be like earlier versions or whatever you like. The toolbars are still fully customizable from within Firefox, you don't even need this for these.
Also see:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ke-old-firefox
2) If you still have any issues you can usually fix them with 'userChrome.css'. But to really know what you are doing, you have to know how to use DOM Inspector.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...nspector-6622/
There is a howto here, but it doesn't tell you explicitly what to do:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/..._DOM_Inspector
Here is what I have found out by messing with it:
a) After you install it, go to: Tools -> Web Development -> DOM Inspector
b) When it pops up, click: File -> Inspect Chrome -> 1 (first whatever)
c) Then you have to click: Calendar button (left of Document - DOM Nodes) -> Style Sheets OR Accessible Tree (click back and forth if they don't show up immediately)
Now on the left panel you can see the layout of XUL that makes up the Firefox UI. On the right panel you will see attributes of whatever you click on in the left panel.
Button names are listed on the right side as 'id' and menus as 'class'.
d) Now, in '~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome/userChrome.css', you can copy an paste button names from DOM inspector. However, you must get rid of quotes '"' and equals '=', and replace 'id' with '#', and 'class' with '.', labels can also be used.
Legend:
# = id = single button
. = class = menu
menu[label=""] = label = anything with a label
Examples:
Code:
id="ctraddon_tabs-closebutton"
becomes
#ctraddon_tabs-closebutton
Code:
class="close-button tabs-closebutton close-icon"
becomes
.close-button, .tabs-closebutton, .close-icon
Code:
label="Close Tab"
becomes
menu[label="Close Tab"]
To disable a button/menu add these to userChrome.css, this is just an example:
Code:
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
display: none !important;
}
To permanently enable a button:
Code:
#go-button {
visibility: visible !important;
}
A real-life example, here's what I use:
Code:
/* set default namespace to XUL, this is required */
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
/* Remove the drop arrow in the Address bar */
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
display: none !important;
}
/* Remove Recently Closed Windows button */
.recentlyClosedWindowsMenu {
display: none !important;
}
/* Remove Restore Previous Session button */
#historyRestoreLastSession {
display: none !important;
}
/* Remove Subscribe to This Page... button */
#subscribeToPageMenupopup, #subscribeToPageMenuitem {
display: none !important;
}
/* Remove Unsorted Bookmarks button and separator */
#menu_unsortedBookmarks, .hide-if-empty-places-result {
display: none !important;
}
That should allow you to fully customize Firefox, and maybe not need to switch to anything else for a while.
