#userChromeCSS

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​MsDropbear42@infosec.space
2025-02-01

I've loved using the superb AO #Sidebery in my :firefox_nightly: for many years. Nevertheless i have been keeping an eye on the FF Devs' progress with native #VerticalTabs in #FirefoxNightly over the past several months. A couple of days ago i decided to create a new profile [using the new Profile paradigm in Nightly], into which i installed all the same AOs [except ofc not Sidebery this time], copied across all my bookmarks, passwords, form data etc, to basically replicate my familiar browsing setup except this time with the native VTs & #TabGroups.

I've used this new profile instead of my usual Sidebery profile for the past day, to do all my normal browsing, so i can get a good feel for the viability or not of this native paradigm. Sidebery's hierarchical infinitely-nestable tree-structure is vastly superior to any & all simple flat tab-groups paradigms like Vivaldi, Floorp, Zen, & Chromium... & now also Nightly, but i'm trying to be tenacious & tolerate it so i can make it a worthy IRL comparison test.

However what's highly irritating is the profligate waste of vertical space of these native VTs compared to Sidebery; see pic. Multiple times i have launched the Nightly #BrowserToolbox UI & tried to discover the specific css code controlling the huge padding & excessive vertical height of these tabs, so i can drastically reduce it in my #userChromeCSS... but each time it seems to evade me [i'm not very good at this].

Can any actual Devs or otherwise keen FF UI modders please point me to the code in question?

Side-by-side vertical tabs columns of Firefox Nightly profiles. LHS is with Sidebery active, RHS is with the native FF Vertical Tabs. Towards the top on each side are the Pinned Tabs, which are desirably small & compact on LHS, but undesirably large [wide & tall] on RHS, thus taking up much more space. Below the PTs are five normal tabs, same sites on both sides. The LHS is vertically desirably compact, whereas again the RHS is ridiculously wasteful of vertical space, being far taller & more padded.
Doc Edward Morbius ❌​dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-05-18

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