Firefox – How to Hide Native Tabs on macOS

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I've started using Tree Style Tab on Firefox. It's a great solution for cases where you have many, many tabs and you want to add some level of organization to it.

It's becoming increasingly unnecessary to have the list of tabs on the top of my browser.

Is it possible to hide the list of tabs at the top of the browser?

Best Answer

To hide the native tabs, you'll have to add a new file called userChrome.css and the css property visibility: collapse.

To do this, in Firefox click on Click on Menu -> Help -> Troubleshooting Information or navigate to about:support in the address bar.

Under the Application Basics section, there will be a section called Profile Directory with a button to Open Directory.

In the Profile Directory create a new folder called chrome. In the chrome folder create or edit the file userChrome.css if it already exists.

The contents of userChrome.css should be the following. 

/* hides the native tabs */
#TabsToolbar {
  visibility: collapse;
}

Some optional further modifications to put in userChrome.css are: 

/* hides the title bar */
#titlebar {
  visibility: collapse;
}

/* hides the sidebar */
#sidebar-header {
  visibility: collapse !important;
}

A configuration that Xilin Sun uses is: 

/* hides the native tabs */
#TabsToolbar {
  visibility: collapse;
}
/* leaves space for the window buttons */
#nav-bar {
    margin-top: -8px;
    margin-right: 74px;
    margin-bottom: -4px;
}

Try these out and see what you think looks best.

To answer your question in the comment, you may like this option better. I tried using visibility, but it was extremely flashy and jittery with the hover. 

/* Option 1 */
#TabsToolbar {
    opacity: 0.0;
}

#TabsToolbar:hover {
    opacity: 1.0;
}

/* Option 2 */
#TabsToolbar {
    visibility: collapse;
}

#navigator-toolbox:hover #TabsToolbar {
    visibility: visible;
}
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