I recently upgraded to Firefox 57.

The first thing I noticed was that half my add-ons had disappeared and the layout and font had changed.  The most irritating one was the tabs on top, and no way to move them down.

I eventually found a fix for the tabs.

Create a file called userChrome.css and paste in the following –

/* Puts tabs on the bottom */
#TabsToolbar {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2;
border-bottom: 1px solid #888 !important;
}
#nav-bar{ border-top-width: 0px !important; }


Find your Mozilla default ‘profile’ folder and move that file into a sub-folder ‘chrome’.  If ‘chrome’ doesn’t exist, then create it first.  Close and reopen Firefox and the tabs will appear below the other toolbars.

However that still didn’t resolve some other issues I had with the new release.

I discovered Waterfox!

I downloaded it and ran it.  I was impressed to say the least.

It doesn’t interfere with Firefox and its settings and includes the options of importing all Firefox’s settings.  When the browser opened after the import, there was the familiar screen and I had to check that I was in fact running Waterfox in the ‘Help -> About’ menu.

Not only was it exactly like Firefox but it had imported my theme, bookmarks, tabs, add-ons, passwords and all the rest.  Even better, it had restored a load of add-ons that had become redundant in Firefox 57.  The only strange anomaly was that the actual contents had reverted to the tabs and pages that existed on the 1st July, but that was no bother whatsoever.

I haven’t yet found any problems with Waterfox.  It uses the same add-ons and themes repository as Firefox, but now virtually all are now compatible instead of the ‘chosen few’.  I still have Firefox installed as an emergency backup but for the foreseeable future, Waterfox will be my default browser.