Vertical tabs for Firefox, inspired by Edge. Works with Light theme, Dark theme, and System theme (auto dark mode). There are some minor glitches with Alpenglow, but they should be easy to fix.
It also plays nice with Container Tabs.
Tested compatibility with up to Firefox 124.
There has recently been in change in Firefox that requires the use of
-moz-platform
instead of -moz-os-version
to use OS-specific CSS. This will
work from 99.0b1 upwards but might not on older versions, so be aware of that.
If you run an older version of Firefox and have an issue, change this back.
(Also, since the only OS-specific CSS in the file targets Windows, it should not affect you on Mac or Linux either way.)
It should work on newer versions as well unless there's any breaking changes
in how userChrome.css
works.
I have only tested this for Linux and macOS. There might be some bugs on Windows because the window decorations look different. I can't test this because I don't have a Windows computer, but if you find any bugs and know how to fix it, feel free to submit a PR.
Starting with version 6.0, the releases include minified versions of both CSS documents. This is because the CSS will exceed the storage quota for web extensions otherwise as it has grown quite large (see issue #116).
WARNING: You HAVE to use the minified version of tabCenterReborn.css
(tabCenterReborn.min.css
) otherwise you will run into issues because of a
huge payload. This is because Firefox allows extensions only a certain amount
of data to pass around and this mod has grown so large that it is over that
limit.
If you don't want to use the minified version, you need to remove some lines of code from that file until it works. Unfortunately that's currently the only way.
You do not need to use a minified version of userChrome.css
, so for now we
don't provide one.
- Go to
about:config
in your URL bar, search fortoolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
and set it totrue
. - Go to
about:profiles
in your URL bar, click "Open Directory" next to your Root Directory under your default profile. - If there is no
chrome
folder, create it. - Create a file called
userChrome.css
inside thechrome
folder. - Copy and paste the contents of
userChrome.css
into your file (or symlink it). - OPTIONAL: Adjust
--delay
setting in theuserChrome.css
file. - OPTIONAL: Adjust
--fullscreen-sidebar-width
setting in theuserChrome.css
file. - Install the Tab Center Reborn extension.
- Make sure to enable "Allow this extension to run in Private windows" so you're not left stranded while browsing.
- Go to
about:addons
in your URL bar, select Tab Center Reborn, go to Preferences and set:- Animations: on.
- Use current browser theme: on, if you want to use dark mode.
- Compact Mode: "Enabled" is recommended. It works with "Dynamic" or "Disabled" too but looks nicer with only favicons.
- Favicon-only pinned tabs: Your choice. If set to "on", you will only have one icon on the top of the collapsed bar and a row of icons in the expanded state, with "off", they appear like normal tabs (one per row) with a pin icon on the right and a separator bar between pinned and normal tabs. The mod works well with both settings.
- Activate Custom Stylesheet and paste the contents of
tabCenterReborn.min.css
into the text area below, and click "Save CSS" under the text box. If you don't want to use the minified version, you need to remove some code manually, otherwise Firefox will complain about too large a payload and ignore the CSS completely (see issue #116).
- Restart Firefox.
- If the sidebar does not show up, you can press
Shift-F1
to show the Tab Center Reborn sidebar directly, orCmd-B
/Ctrl-B
to toggle the sidebar in general. - In Fullscreen mode, the sidebar will collapse to a 1px wide border instead
to be as unintrusive as possible. You can expand it by pushing your cursor all
the way to the edge of the screen. This can be disabled by setting
--fullscreen-sidebar-width
to48px
. - If your window controls are not correctly aligned, disable compact mode at
Customize toolbar...
menu.