I was in the discussion about the differences between chrome and firefox and I got to thinking. I prefer Firefox over Chrome but there are a couple of things I can't stand about the current firefox. One of them was that, while having tabs on top frees up a lot of screen real estate, it's cumbersome when you're filled up on tabs and want to move the browser somewhere else.
Luckily, I made a fix for this awhile ago (so long that I almost forgot it wasn't apart of native firefox).
The fix involves editing (or creating) the userChrome.css file in the chrome directory under your firefox profile. So, navigate to %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
There should only be one folder in here, which looks like [bunchOfLettersHere].default. Go here, the go to/create the chrome directory. Inside the chrome directory open/create userChrome.css.
Then copy this code into userChrome.css:
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#main-window[sizemode=maximized] #navigator-toolbox[tabsontop="true"] #TabsToolbar{
padding-top: 4px !important;
}
You can change 4px to whatever you want, but I found 4px to be the best. Save userChrome.css and restart Firefox. Then your tab bar should look like this:
Hope this helps someone.
*UPDATE*
It looks like mozilla removed the tabs on top option altogether in v29, so there's a slight tweak you'll need to do to keep this working in v29+:
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#main-window[sizemode=maximized] #navigator-toolbox #TabsToolbar{
padding-top: 4px !important;
}
If you'll notice all that's necessary is to remove the tabs on top reference.