bluRRed-firefox - Personnal settings adapted from original manilarome/blurred-functional-fox

A blurred and not so minimal, yet functional configuration for Firefox!

Features

• Minimal bloat (non-crucial icons and decorations hidden)

• Easy way to tweak fonts, colors, and spacings to your liking through CSS variables

• Tab list below toolbar

• Tab(s) with sound playing highlighted with a different color

• Centered URL bar with narrow-er results list

• And more!

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Prerequisites

• Verify that the user stylesheets (userChrome) option is enabled:

  1. Go to the address about:config in Firefox

  2. Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

  3. Confirm the option is set to true

  4. Search for layers.acceleration.force-enabled

  5. Confirm the option is set to true

  6. Search for gfx.webrender.all

  7. Confirm the option is set to true

  8. Enable transparency/blur in your compositor

• Make sure that you have the Default theme enabled

  1. Go to the address about:addons
  2. Enable the Default theme if not already enabled

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Installation

Manual Install

If quick install does not work, or if you simply prefer to; you can manually install minimal functional fox through the following steps:

1. Locate your Firefox user directory. You should be able to find it by navigating to /home/.mozilla/firefox/ and looking for a directory ending with the world .default-release.
2. Within your Firefox user directory, locate the chrome directory, if one does not already exist you can simply go ahead and create it yourself.
3. Download the contents of this repository, and copy all the files to the chrome directory within your Firefox user directory.

After installation, restart Firefox to see the effects.

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Recommended Tweaks

• Select the Customize option from the hamburger menu (≡), and remove all items except for:
  • Forward button
  • Back button
  • Downloads button

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Customizing

You can easily tweak the theme by changing the relevant CSS variables, starting with --mff- located within the :root section at the top of the userChrome.css file.

 :root {
     /* Minimal Functional Fox variables*/
     --mff-bg: #293241;
     --mff-icon-color: #e0fbfc;
     --mff-nav-toolbar-padding: 8px;
     /*
     ...
     ...
     ...
     */
}