Future of Paxmod

[numirias]

A couple of notes, in case you're using Paxmod:

Since Firefox regularly introduces UI changes that require patches in Paxmod, it's quite time-consuming to keep the add-on working. Therefore, in the new releases, I'm just focusing on the few core features and I've dropped a lot of other stuff - most of which was implemented at a time where the default UI was more painful to use and the available WebExtensions APIs weren't very powerful.

What stays:

• Multiple tab rows
• Site-dependent tab colors
• Some customization knobs (and the ability to add custom CSS)

What's gone:

• UI tweaks, theming and color settings. By now, Firefox has a pretty good theme infrastructure and makes it easy to build your own themes. Also, rearranging stuff and changing the UI density under Customize works pretty well anyway.

(FWIW, I've also started working on a small add-on to customize themes ad-hoc, so if you're missing the ability to quickly adjust colors in the settings, maybe that'll help (once it's done).)

[nt1m]

@numirias The theme_experiment feature should make it easier to maintain your extension in case you haven't seen it:

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "Theme experiment",
  "description": "Example of a theme experiment",
  "version": "1.0",
  "theme": {
    "colors": {
      "popup_affordance": [128,128,128]
    },
    "images": {
      "theme_toolbar": "toolbar.jpg"
    }
  },
  "theme_experiment": {
    "stylesheet": "style.css",
    "colors": {
      "popup_affordance": "--arrowpanel-dimmed"
    },
    "images": {
      "theme_toolbar": "--toolbar-bgimage"
    },
    "properties": {
      "toolbar_image_alignment": "--toolbar-bgalignment"
    }
  }
}

The style.css stylesheet can be used to style those properties too:

#nav-bar {
   background-position: var(--toolbar-bgalignment);
}

You can then use the new properties you just defined in extension code too:

browser.theme.update({
  colors: {
    popup_affordance: "green",
  }
});

[nt1m]

Also, note that's there's a bug affecting theme_experiment that causes the experiment to only apply in the initial window it's loaded in, which has been fixed in Firefox 68: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482870

[Ladergorn]

Unfortunately Paxmod seems to be broken with 71.0a1 (2019-10-04) (64-bit). I'm not getting multi-row tabs anymore.
Thanks

[numirias]

@Ladergorn I issued an update (v3.2). Just go to about:addons and Paxmod > Check for Updates.

[Ladergorn]

Cheers - many thanks! Working great again!

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