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.

Medlock

Thanks NYC! Small but very effective little tweak.

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

Leonardo wrote:

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

Thrax wrote:

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

;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.

Medlock

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.