How to restore Tabs On Bottom in Firefox

Martin Brinkmann
Jan 20, 2014
Updated • Feb 8, 2019
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Most browser developers believe that tabs on top of the browser window is the logical position. They may state that this is  consistent in regards to the user interface, or that all "other" browsers are doing it as well.

The debate whether tabs should be on bottom or top in Firefox has waved for years. Mozilla started to push out tabs on top in Firefox 4 as the default display mode but kept an option in Firefox to display them at the bottom if wanted.

There are arguments for tabs on bottom as well as for tabs on top. If that is of interest to you, check out the bug over at Mozilla that tracks the removal of the tabs on bottom mode.

Side note: There is also a third group of users, those who like their tabs displayed on the side of the browser.

Recently, the organization has removed that option from the UI of Firefox, but kept it as a about:config switch that experienced users could still use to display tabs on bottom. That switch, browser.tabs.onTop, will be removed when Firefox Australis is released.

Before we look at  ways to restore tabs on bottom, we need to define bottom and top.

Tabs on top are displayed above the address bar and the bookmarks bar in Firefox. In Australis, only the titlebar is displayed on top of the tabbar.

tabs-on-top

Tabs on bottom on the other hand means that tabs are displayed below the browser's main toolbar and the bookmarks bar. It should not be confused with Tab Mix Plus' bottom display option which moves the tabs below the website to the bottom of the browser window.

tabs-on-bottom

I have been using tabs on bottom in Firefox ever since I started using the browser. While I do not have any issues using tabs on top in Chrome, as the browser lacks customization to place tabs elsewhere, I was disappointed when Mozilla announced the removal of tabs on bottom in Firefox 29.

Update: The extension described below don't work anymore in new versions of Firefox. There is only one option left, to the best of my knowledge, that forces Firefox to display tabs at the bottom of the interface and not the top, and that is by using custom CSS styles.

firefox 65 tabs on bottom

  1. Download the latest version of Classic CSS tweaks from GitHub (by the developer of Classic Theme Restorer).
  2. Extract the archive to your system.
  3. Put the entire set if files and folders in the "chrome" directory of the Firefox profile folder.
    1. The easiest way to locate the profile folder is to load about:support in Firefox and select the "show folder" button on the page to open it.
  4. Open the file userChrome.css in a plain text editor, e.g. Notepad on Windows.
  5. Scroll down or use search to find the "TABS TOOLBAR POSITION" section.
  6. As of Firefox 65, remove /* in front of @import "./css/tabs/tabs_below_navigation_toolbar_fx65.css";
    1. Note: Mozilla changed important code in Firefox 65 which rendered older styles useless.
  7. Save the edited file and restart Firefox.

Firefox should display tabs below the address bar after the restart. End

If you want to restore the functionality, you will have to install extensions to do so. I'm going to review two extensions -- briefly -- that you can use for that.

Straightforward is the Tabs On Bottom extension. It has only one purpose and that is to restore the tabs on bottom functionality in Firefox. All you have to do is install the extension to regain the missing functionality. Note that it will leave other Australis-related changes such as curved tabs as they are.

Classic Theme Restorer on the other hand restores tabs on bottom as well as about a dozen other features or interface elements that were modified or removed in Firefox Australis. I have reviewed the extension in detail here.

tabs-not-on-top

You are probably wondering when this change is going to happen. If you are running Firefox Nightly, it already happened. Firefox Aurora users will notice the change February 4, 2014, Beta users on March 18, 2014, and the bulk of users when the stable version of Firefox is updated to version 29 on April 29, 2014.

While we are at it: what is your preference in regards to tabs? Top? Bottom? Side? No tabs? Lets discuss in the comments.

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How to restore Tabs On Bottom in Firefox
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How to restore Tabs On Bottom in Firefox
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Find out how to customize the Firefox web browser to display the row of tabs at the bottom of the user interface and not at the top.
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  1. bill said on September 8, 2019 at 1:44 pm
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    I am now totally fed up with Firefix, and I have changed to Vivaldi.

    I haven’t got the hours to spend, or the patience, or the tolerance, to fix up all the silly authoritarian changes that Firefox keeps making.

    Why do they want to control their users to this extent?

  2. Jim said on May 10, 2019 at 6:44 am
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    It’s a good thing Firefox doesn’t make keyboards. After 145 years they’d be trying to put the spacebar above the number row.

  3. Wolf Kirchmeir said on May 6, 2019 at 3:37 am
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    “Tabs at the top” is actuallyt better. Problem: at the top of what, exactly? Seems to me th devs with this “put it at the top” fetish haven’t thought it through.

    the tab bar shluld not be at the top of the progrtam window, but at the top of the display pane within the window.

    Which mean below any toolbars between the title bar and the display.

    For those who hide the toolbars, putting the tabs in the title bar is a logical option. For the rest of us, it should be the lowest bar from the top.

    But for all of us, it should be wher we want to put it, not where some dev thinks it should go.

  4. Swamper said on April 7, 2015 at 3:45 am
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    Tabs on bottom once again, and no addons!

    Thank you locutus5280!

    See the post above by locutus5280, May 2014
    Works on FF 37, April 6 2015

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2825513
    Search for the jeffweaver25 post

  5. Blue said on March 21, 2015 at 3:47 am
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    I simply want them to consider this.

    Few of us would drive cars successfully if every time we drove a new car, we needed to relearn how to drive. The whole ‘we know best’ and we must change because it’s ‘cool’ attitudes lose sight of the fact that people are on the other end of things. Just as having to drive a whole new car each time we drove a different car would be a waste of time and user energy, as well as being a safety issue, it is similarly a bad idea here.

    It hurts productivity.
    It is distracting and costs time relearning or fixing (or both)

    We use software to DO things… not just for the fun of using the software (though I actually used to enjoy Firefox back around version 3). Just as I get in my car to drive somewhere… and enjoy driving because when I get behind the wheel of a car, there’s always a steering wheel, and the gas and brake pedals don’t switch places. The mirrors don’t suddenly vanish for ‘improvements’ – though some cars have also ADDED back up cameras. It’s OK to add functions. They can be useful…

    But those functions can also cause issues.

    Knobs on cars used to be default. Now there are touch screens which require that you take your eye off the road in order to find the place on the screen… Cars that have been well thought out have put buttons on steering columns or other nearer places and added voice control…

    But those old knobs have their value… you learn where they are, and you don’t even think about it.

    We type mostly on the same types of keyboards… and when we get a new computer, even the slight differences can make for adjustments… but what if we had to learn a completely new keyboard EVERY time we got a new computer.

    That would be insanity.

    This is what the software gurus are calling ‘improvement’.

    It’s an obscenity.

    It makes products unusable.

    There’s a reason that Netscape went away and IE is dying. There’s even a reason that Chrome grew in popularity… it had features certain people wanted… BUT like a sports car, not everyone wants or needs a stripped down version.

    A NASCAR stock car has few of the bells and whistles of a street car, but it can go 200 miles an hour and bang into walls and the drivers walk away… but it would be hell to drive every day… It’s hot, noisy and stinks after a few hours and you can’t carry passengers.

    Not sure Chrome is a racing car, but I have no problem with other people having choices to use different things… but if I wanted to use those things, I’d be ‘driving’ chrome.

    I CHOOSE Firefox because it (at least in the past) was usable and customizable and I could do what I needed to do without having to relearn or roll my own every update. i don’t have TIME for that.

    I use the ESR channel and don’t have auto update turned on because I need to have time to rebuild my Firefox EVERY time I update it and it breaks everything. It makes me sad that I feel I have to ‘defend’ against updates… but ever since they started TAKING my choice and replacing it with UN-functionality, I don’t see what other options I have.

    And yes, I have 3 other browsers on my computer too… though, sadly I find that at least 2 of them are no longer worth updating and the old versions of them don’t work well anymore either. i miss opera. I won’t miss IE, but sadly a couple organizations I work with are built with it in mind… and it’s become a joke…

    How long til they’re forced to abandon firefox? Maybe it will be soon if enough of US abandon it first.

  6. Patrick said on November 17, 2014 at 12:02 am
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    Tabs on bottom, I refuse to upgrade beyond Firefox 28 simply because of that. While I’m at it, keep the address and search bars separate as well. Those are two different functions, they’d best damn well be two separate fields.
    I will NEVER use Chrome because I hate the UI and I hate the fact that Firefox is shoving a clone of that crap down our throats. Keep this up and I’ll have to swap to one of the FF derivatives.

  7. Al said on November 6, 2014 at 3:27 am
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    If you are a little more adventurous you can create an extra sub-directory under your profile directory, called chrome and then create a file called userChrome.css and put the following lines in it using any text editor. Copy the text exactly as it appears below. Do not copy the dashes.
    —————————————————————————-
    @namespace url(“http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”); /* only needed once */
    #TabsToolbar{ -moz-box-ordinal-group: 100 !important; }
    —————————————————————————-
    Restart FireFox and the Tabs will be on the bottom without installing any Add-Ons.

    Here’s a link to the discussion of this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/997126

  8. Paul said on October 11, 2014 at 7:20 am
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    Tabs on Top violates the basic design tenets for a computer interface. Simply stated, static information (the menu bar, url bar, shortcut bar) should always stay in the same spot. You should also never duplicate data, and with tabs on top all of that info is duplicated within every tab. From a usage perspective, users now have to run their cursor over all of that static data in order to get to the tabs bar, and that is simply a horrific inefficiency! It might seem like a small thing, but those little inefficiencies add up over the course of a day. And small or not, it’s a pathetic reason to excuse poor design.

  9. Mozarrogant said on June 29, 2014 at 6:42 am
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    Change for no reason.
    Breaking user familiarity every six months.
    Fewer options.
    More-hardcoded with every (rapid/nightly) release.
    Combine and hide. Combine and hide.
    All in the name of “clean”.
    More annoyance.
    Less browser share.
    Mozilla arrogance.

  10. Me said on May 13, 2014 at 6:35 am
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    Thank you so much for this! My tabs are back on the bottom where they belong. Firefox should know that people have different preferences. Isn’t that the whole reason for the customizable features they released in this update!?

  11. Michael said on May 12, 2014 at 5:11 pm
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    As a web designer/developer, I find it much more efficient to have the tabs on the bottom so the tab is closely related to the page content.

    With three rows of tool bars used for testing and multiple tabs open at all times, putting the tabs on the top creates too much distance between the tab itself and the tab’s page content.

    Installing the Tabs On Bottom extension was quick, easy (no restart!), and got me on my way again. Thank you for this article and that extension.

    I don’t understand why Mozilla Firefox feels the need to remove customization options.

  12. sedremier said on May 12, 2014 at 8:35 am
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    Tabs on “whatever every other application in my DE does”.

    So if my file-manager uses tabs on bottom and close button on the left: I’ll use tabs on bottom and close button on the left in firefox.

    I like consistency.

  13. aing said on May 10, 2014 at 8:32 pm
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    There are a lot of self-appointed style czars who would like to impose their aesthetics on others, but there should be no arguments about relative utility. What works best for some does not work best for all, and choice must be maintained. I need to work in multiple open tabs, and I find it frustrating to have anything at all information (in the form of toolbars, some of which I need) standing in-between the page content and the name of the tab. Don’t approve? I don’t care. Thank you, ghacks, for informing me about the Classic Theme add-on. I shall now go back to ignoring the fickle dictates of the designer class.

  14. Kim said on May 10, 2014 at 7:06 pm
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    THANK YOU!! I about had a panic attack when my Firefox restarted today with an update to 29 and my bottom tabs were up top. Can’t stand them up there. That’s part of the reason why I don’t like Chrome! I was using the config solution before today, but needless to say it doesn’t work anymore. The first add-on you linked to worked like a charm.

    The reason I prefer them on bottom is because I find it more efficient. I build websites and manage social media and it is not uncommon for me to have dozens of tabs open at any given time. When the tabs are on top I am always clicking on the wrong thing. (Probably just because I am used to it being at the bottom) Not to mention the split seconds it takes to pick out which is the tab adds up, when its at the bottom there is no searching. Sounds silly, but stuff like that bugs me.

    Thanks again!

  15. locutus5280 said on May 10, 2014 at 1:02 am
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    I found a solution without having to resort to another add-on. Worked for me since I am a bottom button person.
    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2825513

    Search for the jeffweaver25 post

  16. elisa said on May 2, 2014 at 8:53 pm
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    on bottom much better. I have NO clue, why they don’t give the user the option yes or no.
    nasty

  17. DaveHi said on May 2, 2014 at 8:13 pm
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    Never understood the tabs on top option, just find it irritating, but, one of the reasons to use Firefox is the choice. Add to this the ability to combine the Navigation and Menu Bars, plus a bottom add on Bar, and Firefox have provided me with an efficient interface for many years.

    With 29, well why use Firefox? Chrome or Chromium look just appealing as an option, more so if you prefer text to icons.

    Sad day for all when Mozilla start removing the reasons to use their products.

    1. Ali K said on May 10, 2014 at 8:09 pm
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      One has to wonder if Mozilla has secretly sold out to Google. It will indeed be a sad day for all. FF29 is a bloody mess left to the end users to waste THEIR time wading neck high through said mess to hopefully have it mimic the older versions. For shame!

  18. Adrian said on May 1, 2014 at 7:07 am
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    It seems to me that most of the posters above say “prefer”. That describes exactly what they want, to be able to exercise their preference. People shouldn’t have to justify their preference because to every argument supporting one view there’s an equaly valid argument supporting the opposite.

    I ‘prefer’ the bar of tabs to be immediately above the panes displaying the content because they are directly linked and associated. Placing other UI elements between the two, to me, inserts distracting other functionality between the operations and moves that I need to do in order to switch between tab panes. Tabs below ‘feels right to me’.

    I really resent having someone else make my UI choices for me particularly when they remove functionality and override my decisions.

    Just bring back the choice and leave my choice alone when rolling out a new version please.

  19. angua said on April 30, 2014 at 5:01 pm
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    I prefer tabs on bottom.
    Leaving us without option is very, very user unfriendly move.

    Lately lots of things are forced on users just for the sake of upgrade.
    Unfortunately I know what “they” think; we can rant as much as we want and then we’ll get used to it.
    After all what’s the alternative?

  20. Xav Lampi said on April 30, 2014 at 1:26 pm
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    While Classic Theme Restorer allows me to put the tabs “on bottom”, the effect under Mac OS X Mavericks is that the vertical size of the content part of the window, already at a premium on the screen of a MacBook Air, gets even less. In the default view the tabs bar shares its vertical band with the standard (x) (-) (+) buttons in what usually is the title bar of a window, but with tabs on bottom, no sharing takes place. What I’d really want is to swap the bookmarks bar with the tabs bar.

  21. Jerry said on March 30, 2014 at 6:06 pm
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    I prefer them on the bottom. I like to see the tab name (and to me, hence the location of the document) right above the document. Also, other tabs that I am referencing are probably adjacent.
    To move my view to the top over perhaps several other toolbars then loses focus.

    Look at it this way. The tab above the document points right into the document. But with the tabs at the top, it now goes through other bars that are totally unrelated to the document. One for instance, is the favorites bar.

    Much of what others might find making sense, like a bar with the printer icon, is less important to me. I use keystrokes for as much as is practical since it is faster and eye and mouse are not required.

  22. Marco said on March 25, 2014 at 7:41 pm
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    I prefer tabs on bottom because I want the bookmarks toolbar above them, as bookmarks do not belong to the page I am viewing. I am very disappointed that the feature has been completely removed in Firefox 29. I also used Panorama a lot, and it has been removed too, along with the addon bar. They should stop copying Chrome because its UI is horrible, the only feature they should copy is its speed and being able to isolate a single tab by process, as often I have one script blocking all the browser.

  23. Goo said on March 22, 2014 at 1:09 am
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    I prefer tabs on bottom because I switch more often between many open tabs and I prefer the shorter mouse movements. I think this should always be an option. Why not allow the user to choose?

    Many of us switched to OPEN programs, because of Micro$ofts assaults. As soon as open source programs gain popularity, they stupidly start doing the same assaulting things. I can meanwhile give many examples e.g. Thunderbird not searching to Google, Gimp no longer saving straight to JPG.
    What is going on with the developers? Why are they so big headed and feel they must suppress their users?
    Why not leave the choice to the user, especially if it doesn’t cost any extra code?
    Why must some programmers tell me, what is “better” for me?

  24. Christian said on March 21, 2014 at 5:31 am
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    I prefer on the bottom. Takes up less space, makes more sense and it’s more convenient when you have multiple tabs open and are often changing between them.

  25. JB said on February 18, 2014 at 9:43 am
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    Nevermind, Tabs On Bottom installed on the third try. Odd.

  26. JB said on February 18, 2014 at 9:04 am
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    I prefer tabs on bottom. Tabs on top seems to appeal to people who rarely change tabs (social media, shopping), whereas people who need multiple resources (researchers, programmers, newshounds) don’t like the longer reach into the middle of unrelated functions. As a previous poster mentioned, the other bars move if you use multiple tab rows. Marketing to content creators over users is great for Chrome/Google because that’s their core business, but suicide for Firefox, whose market has always been geared toward people who don’t want advertisers or anyone else telling them how to use their browsers.

    Btw, the current nightly, 30.0a1 (2014-02-17), doesn’t work with the Tabs On Bottom extension, although I’ll leave my tinfoil in the cupboard for now, because toolbar customization is currently broken, albeit in an unrelated way. Move something off the navigation bar over the tab bar for a moment, and the browser opens that tab, forcing you to have a very steady hand if you want to move things around with a small desktop/laptop screen (I’m using a 32″ monitor.)

    Removing the tab placement option isn’t interminable, but it definitely makes Firefox less appealing, and the number of remaining advantages over Chrome is already so low that most users remain simply out of habit or distrust of Google. Not a good place to be in for the folks at Mozilla, much less for them to be racing even deeper into their own mess.

    Give me options. Hide them in about:whatever if you want to appeal to content creators, advertisers, and users who can barely find the On switch, but at least throw the rest of us an option. Complaining about the maintenance issues of the vertical position of a toolbar is a bit specious. If it is a major problem, then perhaps take a developer off the “round all the tab edges” team and let them focus on the code for moving a toolbar downward 20 pixels.

    Just sayin’.

    1. Sandi said on March 22, 2014 at 1:17 am
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      I prefer tabs-on-bottom because when I see a link I’d like to explore, I drag it to the tab bar, then let it load while I continue reading the current page. BTW, for that same reason, I HATE ‘switch to new tab immediately’.

      I am disappointed that Firefox is chasing Chrome’s annoying UI while abandoning useful features.

  27. Jessica Foyle said on February 7, 2014 at 6:48 pm
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    Oh it seems to be getting so close to when abandon Firefox! It has been an interminable process of reversing features they’ve removed. It is mindless!

    I like tabs below to separate the web page and the browser controls. Each time I have to use an extension (eg status-4-evar) to get back ways of working that to me are intuitive I feel a little bit more that by using Firefox these days I am supporting an idiot. Like Microsoft and Windows 8.x, forcing changes that even if they were improvements are not anything like as important as not removing your long-term user’s choice.

    1. Ali K said on May 10, 2014 at 8:05 pm
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      Indeed another foul case of the designer ‘knows best’ for all of the end users. Egad, and to think Firefox was doing this for us, to help us. Bless them for doing what was best and what was so desired, no. Curse the TABS ON TOP only option back to where it slithered out from!!!! Haha

  28. Ty Myrick said on January 23, 2014 at 8:50 pm
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    I prefer tabs on bottom. I am not happy about having to install an extension to maintain functionality. I do not have a problem with making changes that add features or improve the software, but I cannot see the point in changing or removing features simply because someone likes it that way rather than another.

    I have both Firefox and Chrome open right now. Firefox has tabs on the bottom, Chrome on the top. The UI chrome on Firefox only takes up a few more pixels of vertical space than Chrome, and switching to tabs on top doesn’t make it any smaller. So what is the actual point of removing tabs on bottom?

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on January 23, 2014 at 9:27 pm
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      Less maintenance.

      1. Carpatula said on January 26, 2014 at 2:54 pm
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        And it is no secret that Mozilla switched from Opera fanboy’ism over to Chrome fanboy’ism ;) They adopted now Google’s Design concept and abandoned the customizability concept they took much years earlier from Opera. Mozilla follows more trends instead of creating own ones. Too bad i only discovered that recently, but fine for me, Qupzilla or Otter-Browser Project here i come.

        If i would be interested in more clueless browser developement i could also use Chrome or Opera.

        Anyway, i am very disappointed!

  29. John Cookson said on January 23, 2014 at 2:14 pm
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    I must say that I do not understand the current trend driving removal of interface functionality from browsers. This is not progress but instead represents significant regression and is sheer lunacy. It is one thing to have a simplistic default interface configuration but why on earth remove customisation options for more sophisticated users.

    My preferred browser had always been Opera, where a philosophy of interface customisation and functionality reigned supreme. Unfortunately the current development team at Opera appears to have recently abandoned this approach in favour of using the Chrome browser engine in their newer versions. It remains to be seen how much interface functionality and options for customisation are restored to their new browser as the future unfolds but things do not look good at the moment and I have been doggedly hanging on to their currently obsolete classic 12.x version.

    In regard to this article, I prefer tabs positioned at the bottom of my browser window just above the Windows taskbar. Each of us have our opinions on this and Opera 12.x lets me exercise my own preferences. I very much appreciate such flexibility. When I am working on a powerful desktop computer, I want a feature rich sophisticated browser experience which allows me to maximize productivity.

    Don’t ask me about Bookmarks and combination URL/Search boxes otherwise I may go off on another rant….

    I should also mention that in addition to Internet Explorer, I have the following browsers installed on most of my desktop/laptop and tablet computers :-

    Opera 12, Opera 15, Opera Next, Firefox, Pale Moon and Chrome. More often than not I have three or more of these browsers running at the same time (and no, this is not as daft as it sounds).

    1. Eric said on February 16, 2014 at 9:57 pm
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      I also was a fan of Opera; unfortunately, I had to switch a few months ago to Firefox as my default browser because there were too many sites I frequented where Opera 12.16 was no longer working properly.

      I agree that tabs belong at the bottom of the page. I use a modified Ubuntu without any panel at the bottom, so my tabs in Opera and now Firefox are at the bottom of the screen. For me, tabs at top push page content too far town, and I like the tabs out of the way.

      I appreciated your comments about the lunacy of removing options. It’s a step in the wrong direction.

      By the way, on those rare occasions I use Windows I often have two or three browsers open. In Linux, I have the option of creating web apps using Epiphany/Web, which is a convenient way of putting pages I want constantly left open into a separate window I’m not likely to close by accident.

  30. jfjb said on January 22, 2014 at 4:09 pm
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    Sorry, I missed that line… Need to change medication…
    So, there won’t be any possible possibility to just add the browser:tabs.OnTop Boolean in about:config? S**eiße !!
    (grin)

    1. Jaroslav Matura said on January 23, 2014 at 11:12 am
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      No, it’s just not possible anymore. You’ll have to install an addon to do it.
      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/

  31. jfjb said on January 21, 2014 at 10:05 pm
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    about:config … browser.tabs.onTop defaults to TRUE
    double click to change Bolean, reload FF
    et voilà… easy as pie
    (almost) on the fly
    no extension on either SSD-HD or RAM

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on January 21, 2014 at 10:52 pm
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      As I said, this works in pre-Firefox 29 versions. If you are using Firefox 29 or newer, you will notice that it won’t work anymore.

  32. Firefoxlover said on January 21, 2014 at 4:10 pm
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    For many years I am having the tabs on top and like it that way since having the tabs on bottom takes up more screen space.

  33. beemeup2 said on January 21, 2014 at 6:48 am
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    I prefer tabs on the bottom because working with multiple rows of tabs is much easier. If they’re on top, they’ll push down the address bar and bookmarks bar the more rows there are. If they’re on the bottom, the address bar and bookmarks bar remain exactly where they are regardless of how many rows of tabs are present, which is exactly how I like it.

    Palemoon will never remove the option to have tabs on bottom because Palemoon users recognize the need for more control over your browser, not less. If I wanted less, I’d use Chromium.

    1. Carpatula said on January 26, 2014 at 2:51 pm
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      Sorry to tell you, the changes of Australis are too big. A one men project wants to maintain the old UI alone… Very unlikely that that works.

      There are 2 possibilities.. that guy will use aris addon like he used another addon which he did put in the browser core (status 4evar) or he will quit his custom build, because on longer terms there is no addon compatibility and theme compatibility with the old UI anymore.

      If you want to refuse the Chrome look and functions, switch over to Qupzilla or the new Otter-Browser Alpha – both projects are way more promising in terms of future customizability!

      But Firefox is done with it, both official and both inofficial builds!

  34. fulltext said on January 21, 2014 at 3:57 am
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    I’m a tabs on side guy. Might as well use the extra screen width and have more space for scrolling

  35. Karl Gephart said on January 21, 2014 at 2:17 am
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    Always prefer top. Gives the browser window more of a 3D pop, especially with a little styling.

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on January 21, 2014 at 10:29 am
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      Shame on you ;)

  36. Jaroslav Matura said on January 21, 2014 at 12:43 am
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    I prefer having tabs on top, as they take up less space on my small laptop screen that way. However, from time to time, I get tired of the look, so I change it for a while.
    Removing Tabs on top won’t hurt my everyday browsing needs, but I am against it as I believe there are thousands of users who prefer it the classic way.

    When I go over to Bugzilla to read (or very rarely participate to) devs’ discussions over whether or not remove what feature (it usually ends up with axing the feature), I fairly often cannot believe my own eyes, because what some of the devs use as arguments, quite literally sickens me. To be honest, and I’m speaking from the bottom of my heart, it’s all shit. The more I read, the deeper I dig, the stronger the impression of them getting paid by Google to dumb Firefox down gets.

    I can only hope now that after Australis’ release Firefox’s market share will go down so the devs actually rerealize what they’ve been doing wrong all along. I just can see no other way.

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