These are really some notes for myself for if I ever need to set Firefox up again, but in the interests of sharing, they're public. Why not?
Not much intro to this one! I’ve modified my Firefox a decent bit because:
I was also guiding my brother through setting up a similar environment recently, so figured I’d write it here for posterity (especially since removing the tab bar had me re-Googling how to do it).
Firefox Multi-Account Containers are great. Use them! Unfortunately, their rules apply only at the domain level. That will be fixed by the next section…
You can set up any domain rules as you wish, etc. Not going into that for this.
/watch
pages are reloaded in your Container, and other pages are not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com
about:config
and enable:toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
layers.acceleration.force-enabled
gfx.webrender.all
gfx.webrender.enabled
layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled
svg.context-properties.content.enabled
%APPDATA%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/{PROFILE ID}
(it’s probably the folder that ends in .default-release
, if that helps)chrome
folder if nonexistent.chrome/userChrome.css
(if not there already) and add:#TabsToolbar,
#sidebar-header,
#sidebar-splitter {
visibility: collapse;
}
Tip: If your vertical tabs aren’t visible, use F1
to toggle the sidebar. If you use F11
to go fullscreen, you may also wish to hide the sidebar the same way.