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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by mbrumlow on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @08:40PM (#18974903)
I was in your boat, it is a pain, but...

I found that I actually like the UI in firefox after customizing it. For me it may have been easy because I use sway (i3 clone on wayland -- clone is the best, it is actually more / better than i3). But it really ended up looking nice[0]. I found I could customize more things that I could on chrome, including the start page.

In any case, if you don't switch, I urge you to give it 15 mins and tinker with the ui config and a home page config. You can rid your self of alot of weird chrome bits that I think most find ugly and make it look smooth.

Further more, you can set up your own sync server and sync all your stuff to a safe spot.

[0]: https://imgur.com/XpTxwn9

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by jgtrosh on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:07AM (#18976812)
I actually don't switch to Firefox because I'm on i3. I fell in love with surf-like browsing, and am able to somewhat get the same result with chrome in --app mode. There is however no way (to my knowledge) to get tab-less full-window browsing in Firefox.
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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by jgtrosh on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:25AM (#18977621)
edit: I just installed the tab-less extension, edited my userChrome.css, and I'm really happy with the results. I'm going to give Firefox a go from now on!
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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by mbrumlow on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:05PM (#18982222)
Can you please share a screenshot, and information on what you edited in userChrome.css ?
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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by jgtrosh on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:54PM (#18992291)
Sorry I hadn't seen this earlier.

I don't have a screenshot right now, but it's just as you might expect, the whole tab line is removed (the nav bar line with menus comes to the top instead). [This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736cji/how_to_hide...) talks about doing the same thing in the context of tree-style tabs. Good luck!

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