Nice little Firefox visual tweak

[NYCDrew]

I find that when you have a lot of tabs opened in Firefox, it becomes annoying to keep track of which tab you're looking at. I found this little tweak and like it so much I want to share. It turns the active tab blue so it stands out.

By creating a .css file in your Firefox chrome folder, you can alter the appearance of Firefox easily. Just create the userChrome.css file in the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[your specific number].default\chrome

You can use notepad or Wordpad to create a new file. Paste the code below into it and save it as "userChrome.css" in the above directory. Restart Firefox and open a second tab and you should see it. :)

.tabbrowser-tab[selected="true"] > hbox,
.tabbrowser-tab[selected="true"] > .tab-close-button {
background-color: #00f !important;
color: #fff !important;
}

.tabbrowser-tab[selected="true"]:hover > hbox,
.tabbrowser-tab[selected="true"]:hover > .tab-close-button {
background-color: #66f !important;
color: #fff !important;
}

/* the rules below are optional, you can remove them */

.tabs-bottom {
background-color: #00f !important;
height: 6px !important;
}

.tabs-bottom-spacer {
height: 2px !important;
}

[bschie]

I like to use https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/1368

while I am at work since I have so many tabs open all day.


But good little tweak NYC. :)

[bschie]

Sorry that was the italian version. /kills co worker

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368

that's better

[Hunter_Thompson]

Very nice! This makes Firefox gold! IE can go spit, especially the wau it opens tabs!! Cheers.

[TheGr81]

Thanks NYC! Small but very effective little tweak. :thumbsup:

[Leonardo]

Outstanding! Nice, easy little hack. It's very useful for me. I continually am closing the wrong tabs when I have five or sex open. This should be a good crutch from my failure to pay attention.

Works perfectly.

[Thrax]

I continually am closing the wrong tabs when I have five or sex open.

That happens to me when I'm looking at pr0n too, Leo.

[Thelemech]

That happens to me when I'm looking at pr0n too, Leo.


:eek3:;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D



Works Perfectly --- a true ladies Man!!!!

[Leonardo]

Uh, oh, wellll. hhmmm - guess I was due a put down. :Pwned:

[Leonardo]

NYCDrew, I finally got around to implementing this neat jig at work. One minor errata you might like to know:

For some reason, creating and saving the file through WordPad did not work. It worked immediately with Notepad.

[NYCDrew]

Thanks for letting me know. I guess Wordpad must add formatting or something. :)

[TheGr81]

Just to save someone the trouble of fishing up such an old thread...

This doesn't work with 3.0. I had to remove it manually. :(