Fix The Fox! 🦊

Important

Use a fork of firefox that does a lot of privacy/security enhancements out of the box, like Librewolf, Mullvad or Tor for the desktop. Ironfox or Tor for Android.

Clean up the default UI!

This takes 1 minute to do and will give 6,8% plus usable space on screen

Firefox on second run (on first run the left sidebar is not added), bars take up 10.55% of the screenshot	Cleeeeean, bar takes up 3,75% of the screenshot

Icons for context menus.

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

I recommend the Proton style.

Picture in picture window doesn't stay above others on kde.

1. Right click an open Picture-in-Picture window. In the context menu, select "More Actions" -> "Configure Special Window Settings...".

2. Click "Add Property..." and select "Window title". The newly added row's text field should read "Picture-in-Picture". Change the dropdown option from "Unimportant" to "Exact Match". (All PiP windows in Firefox use this title and by making it Exact Match the rule shouldn't affect any other Firefox windows.)

3. Click "Add Property..." again and this time select "Keep above other windows". The dropdown in the newly added row should be set to "Apply Initially". Select the "Yes" radio button if it isn't already.

4. Click "OK". That's it. No more manually setting Keep Above every time you open a PiP.

NOTES:

• The original reddit thread of the fix.

• For me the "Keep above other windows" line disappeared after setting it and reopening the config window. After going in and out of PiP a few times and redoing the setup it stuck around.

• The upcoming fix: wayland pip protocol support.

• Make sure you only have one of these window rules, as plasma won't notify you if you already have one active (even if its identical), leading to conflicts and crashes.

Remove search icon drop down

It hides the lock and shield icon to check site info

1. Open about:config

2. Search for: browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride

3. Change from true to false

Article with the fix

Tablet UI

1. Open about:config

2. Search for: browser.uidensity

3. Set it to: 1

Too short bookmark folder selection window

This helps me organize my bookmarks a LOT

1. Make sure you have userChrome.css support enabled:

• Go to about:config
• Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
• Set it to true

2. The file should be in the correct location:

• Go to about:support
• Find Profile Directory and click Open Directory
• Create a folder named chrome if it doesn't exist
• Create/edit userChrome.css inside the chrome folder

3. Add the following code to the file:

#editBMPanel_folderTree {
  height: auto !important;
  min-height: 400px !important; /* Adjust this value as needed */
}

4. Restart Firefox

NOTES

• llms were used in figuring this out
• with a cleaned UI, no horizontal taskbar and a 1080p screen 700px works great, ymmv, try and see what works best

Before	After