Can't answer for parent post, but I do my living room browsing on a 1360x768 dumb TV and having the bookmarks toolbar open in any tab other than a blank new tab eats a noticeable amount of screen real state, so I default to new tab & click on bookmark.

It's a bummer that Firefox is not respecting its own compact layout by needlessly enlarging the address bar while on focus, but the shadow dropped from the new monstrosity obscures the bookmarks toolbar in my desktop with default layout, too, and that's a real usability concern.

How does this work for you? The only thing I miss about Chrome is it's default exposure of the bookmarks bar on new tab page.

Until FF 72, adding the following to userchrome worked fine to mimic this behavior, but now it is broken:

https://github.com/Timvde/UserChrome-Tweaks/blob/master/tool...

I think I'm using a tweaked version of this one:

https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/c...

I changed it into "transform 125ms linear 43ms" and removed the "transition-delay" lines because it felt too slow.

Because GUIs have have more then one workflow since their invention. Same reason that there are multiple designs of physical tools, user preference.

Sure, but in this case this is the intended workflow, and works so well that if another, alternate workflow is affected it's not much of a problem.

well for me, because I had no idea.