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Tabs height got really big suddenly

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Today I opened Firefox and the tabs were like this. I didn't touch any options in userChrome.css or about:config in months, so I have no idea why it happened (maybe a shortcut or the last update changed something?). How do I go back to a normal height? Thank you kindly for your responses

Today I opened Firefox and the tabs were like this. I didn't touch any options in userChrome.css or about:config in months, so I have no idea why it happened (maybe a shortcut or the last update changed something?). How do I go back to a normal height? Thank you kindly for your responses
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found in about:config, browser.tabs.firefox-view

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But you have userChrome.css? You have to update or remove your modifications then.

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I tried modifying a bit the userChrome.css file, it seems like the problem is not the tab height itself, the logo in the top right corner got big all of a sudden. Any idea how to remove it?

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found in about:config, browser.tabs.firefox-view

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Note that you can move the Firefox View button from the Tab bar to the Navigation Toolbar or its overflow area or remove it from the toolbar via the right-click context menu, so no need to disable this feature as it is possible/likely that this pref will be removed once this feature is considered complete.

The Firefox View button has been changed to a folder icon in current releases, controlled by this pref on about:config.

  • browser.tabs.firefox-view-newIcon

With this pref set to false you get the 192px about-logo.png icon and not firefox-view.svg. Do you have CSS code in userChrome.css to set this Firefox icon or otherwise have code that sets the height of the tab bar ? We have seen more reports about this icon getting big and it is likely a case of broken CSS that needs an update for 119. Can you post your userChrome.css, so we can inspect it ?


#firefox-view-button {
  list-style-image: url("chrome://browser/skin/firefox-view.svg");
}