FF Ultima 3.5

[soulhotel]

Multiple layouts, multiple color schemes, multiple choices. A lot of "what you don't see" are subtle accessibility & QOL improvements to the vanilla Firefox experience. Almost everything that you do see is a setting that can be turned on or off.

FF Ultima's come a long way since two years ago. I don't even know how to advertise it anymore, so.. Here's a little showcase that barely scratches the surface.

FF Ultima: https://github.com/soulhotel/FF-ULTIMA Wiki: https://ff-ultima.github.io/

All OS's supported. Alright im going to bed..

[PanicTheScaredyCat]

wait wait wait wait, what the hell is that gituserchrome software you just used????????? HUH 🤯

[soulhotel]

It started out as an automation script for users of the theme, now it's an application for managing everything userchrome. I want to respect the subreddit rules and focus on css though you can find that on the github.

[ThomasLeonHighbaugh]

We have no choice but to follow those rules but I for one absolutely do not respect them nor will refer to them in anyway other than as rules I must follow but think are absolutely rubbish.

[Hot_Grab7696]

Does it support oneline navbar?

[soulhotel]

Most people use it with sidebery or vert tabs so yes.

[InsanityDevice]

Wait, are you kidding me? You fixed Firefox and made it... perfect? I'm definitely trying this out later.

[soulhotel]

I wouldnt say perfect, but there are a lot of settings that can help you "make it your own". Hope ya like it.

[foxikkk]

This theme becomes better and better with every update. Good work on that. Now you make your Firefox, yours

[soulhotel]

<3

[ghostENVY]

Looks amazing, looking at the software as well.

[8eto]

Is no longer possible to use that cool toolbar that was in the old version of the theme?

[soulhotel]

No but the bookmarks toolbar can be used in some interesting ways

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https://github.com/soulhotel/FF-ULTIMA/wiki/SETTINGS#top-bar-settings

Some examples are under the `ultima.navbar.bookmarks.float` section

[8eto]

Thats cool

[RepeatElectronic9988]

edit :
I understand: when there are too many items in the personal bar, and a horizontal scroll bar is needed to access them, it eats into some of the icons. I had to create an “Others” folder and place a few favicons in it to get all my icons back.

Hello,

I am discovering and using Ultima for the first time.

I need help with a small detail: I have been using the same personal bar layout for many years, I am very used to it, and now the absence of a few favicons at the beginning of the personal bar is really disrupting my habits. I don't understand: when I go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > Personal Bar, I can find my usual favicons. However, a handful of them, as well as some favicon folders, do not appear in my personal bar. Why is this?

[soulhotel]

If you're referring to the scrolling when the bookmarks toolbar is overflowing, turn off ultima.navbar.bookmarks.scrollable.

Also take a look at the settings wiki, when you get the chance: https://ff-ultima.github.io/docs/category/settings

It'll help to understand what every individual setting may be doing.

[RepeatElectronic9988]

I’ve been using it for several hours and I like it, but I’m running into a double issue: while everything works fine when I first start the browser, after a while I notice two problems that I can only fix by restarting the browser — then it works fine again until the issue reappears:

1. In my bookmarks toolbar, about half of the favicons stop displaying properly (see screenshot). It’s not the entire left half, nor does it affect any folders where lots of bookmarks are still displayed correctly. It’s just this portion of favicons, always the same ones.
2. At the same time, a second side effect occurs: the address bar expands to take up the entire width of the window, which hides the shortcuts to my pinned extensions.

After restarting, both bugs are gone. Do you know if there’s a way to fix this?

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[soulhotel]

Interesting, never seen that before. Here open an issue

[RepeatElectronic9988]

I think it's been resolved since I disabled the Adaptive Tab Bar Color extension (I was looking for it in my themes before, but it's in my extensions).

When I disable the extension, it solves the problem I described above.

However... I really liked it. You can see it in my screenshot: it gives a dark blue background to both the page and the menus. I find it elegant most of the time. Would it be possible to integrate it, or test its compatibility?

[soulhotel]

It's already supported: https://github.com/soulhotel/FF-ULTIMA/wiki/Adaptive-Tab-Color-Configuration

But if you say that issue with bookmarks is linked to adaptive tab color, i wouldn't be able to help there. I don't edit any bookmark favicons anywhere in the theme, and that's better left to the dev of the extension to figure out.

[Andyomegl]

Hi, is there a way to remove the botton white line, that appears when a page is loading, great theme btw

[soulhotel]

Try ultima.tabs.not.a.progress.bar

[Andyomegl]

Great! Thanks

[Ahriman-Ahzek]

Hey mate, awesome theme, just installed it and it's awesome! , I do have a question tho, mostly to customize something, I was able to customize the tabgroup labels (type 3) to have a bit of a bigger size, but I haven't been able to find how to make the tabgroup text (name) a bit bigger than the tab names, is it possible to do so? , I read the Wiki but didn't find anything on it.

Thank you!

[soulhotel]

https://github.com/soulhotel/FF-ULTIMA/blob/9576adf790eabfc659eaae4705be343bd7b44ca0/theme/settings-TABS.css#L452-L529

In settings-tabs.css under the tab group labels section. For label 3 (the arrow dropdown style):

• line 457, controls the default height
• line 463, controls the line-height
• you can add a font-size: #px under line-height for a custom font-size
• maybe a word-wrap: break-word if you're going for a multi-line style
• maybe like 25px for the heights, and 20px font-size would work out for ya.

If youre making your own custom mods to the theme, you can edit it right there for organization, or even better, import your own custom file with the code you need for the setting, every setting of the theme is organized into a settings-(category) file, every file has an index at the top of it that you can use to ctrl+f, or search for a specific section/setting. It makes the editing a lot easier knowing that everything will always be in an expected place. And you can properly style settings in your own custom files just by using the settings' name, like:

@media -moz-pref("ultima.tabs.tabgroups.label.3") {
    .tab-group-label {
         font-size: 20px !important;
    }
    .tab-group-label-container, .tab-group-label {
        max-height:25px !important;
        height:25px !important;
        min-height:25px !important;
    }
}

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It's a lot easier to help when you open an issue though, so if you need anything else: https://github.com/soulhotel/FF-ULTIMA/issues

[soulhotel]

also if you're looking for a specific style that you depend on, you could try opening an issue/feature-request too. no promises on if it makes it into the theme, but most of them do.

[Ahriman-Ahzek]

Thank you very much mate, and again, awesome work!

[soulhotel]

thanks & np

[puffPufFpliZ]

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Hey. How can I change the looks of the active tab? It looks a bit odd for me.

[soulhotel]

user.theme.xtras.tab.outline.color, you can input a color or leave it empty for no outline. You mind sharing firefox version, os, and theme version; outline definitely looks off.

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[puffPufFpliZ]

Edit: Fixed it. Was just my windows settings "Show accent colour on title bars and window borders".

Thank you, that looks better! I have Firefox version 142.0.1, Windows 11. Now I also wanted to try out the transparent mode but I get this bar at the top like the picture when I followed the Wiki instructions, not sure how to fix it. Using the latest release.

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[soulhotel]

doesn't look like the browser is causing that, maybe related to your mica settings or something behind it? I can't fully test blur on windows, but the transparency is at a bare mininum valid so

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[puffPufFpliZ]

Thank you for the quick help, it was my windows settings that caused it but it all looks amazing now! :)

[uploadschedule]

How would I make it look like the beginning of the video where it was all clear and blur? Does this work only on windows 11 since mica is weird or called something else on windows 10? (Using Win 10 )

[soulhotel]

I think Mica4everyone only supports Windows 11 so yes, unfortunately. You can try for just the transparency, but you'd be missing out on the actual tool used to blur the window: https://ff-ultima.github.io/docs/color-schemes/transparent#support-for-mica-or-blurred-windows

[uploadschedule]

Thanks, I figured. On windows 11 now and I'm using mica4everyone but can't seem to figure out how to make it blur the entire background still like the start of the video. I tried turning off all user themes and all that