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How to get multi-row bookmarks bar?

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For years I've used a userchrome script to show multiple rows of bookmarks, but it no longer works in Firefox 66!

Does anyone know what's gone wrong, or a way this can be fixed?

I cannot function without multi-row bookmarks! I have over 25,000 bookmarks, all neatly organized into folders across five rows of bookmarks. there's no way I could cram all those categories into one single, solitary row.

It's a shame that Firefox has never seriously supported the bookmark bar. It's always been buggy, ugly, cumbersome to use, and never felt very "solid". The menu also has a tendency to disappear, making it hard to organize and drag bookmarks and folders around.

For years I've used a userchrome script to show multiple rows of bookmarks, but it no longer works in Firefox 66! Does anyone know what's gone wrong, or a way this can be fixed? I cannot function without multi-row bookmarks! I have over 25,000 bookmarks, all neatly organized into folders across five rows of bookmarks. there's no way I could cram all those categories into one single, solitary row. It's a shame that Firefox has never seriously supported the bookmark bar. It's always been buggy, ugly, cumbersome to use, and never felt very "solid". The menu also has a tendency to disappear, making it hard to organize and drag bookmarks and folders around.

Chosen solution

https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

Grab the latest version of that CSS code. Some changes made for Firefox 65 'broke' the older CSS code for certain elements of the UI, a simple edit is needed. I am not aware of any changes made for Firefox 66 though.

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Chosen Solution

https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

Grab the latest version of that CSS code. Some changes made for Firefox 65 'broke' the older CSS code for certain elements of the UI, a simple edit is needed. I am not aware of any changes made for Firefox 66 though.

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Thanks, the link you gave has the solution - a new code for Firefox 66!

The code I had been using before was very long, but the new code is really small and simple. You just put this in your Userchrome file:

#PersonalToolbar {
  min-height: unset !important;
  max-height: unset !important;
/* text-align: center !important; */
}

#PersonalToolbar #PlacesToolbarItems {
  overflow-x: visible !important;
  overflow-y: visible !important;
  display: inline-block !important;
}

Modified by MartyJames

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Hi MartyJames, if you put <pre> before and </pre> after your CSS, the forum won't mangle it as badly.

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Thanks again, as always, jscher! (I've edited my post.)

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MartyJames said

Thanks again, as always, jscher! (I've edited my post.)

@MartyJames Hi, can you share your script for multirow bookmarks? In my case any CSS solution has this problem: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/99#issuecomment-475870631

Modified by webref.pl

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Hi webref.pl, MartyJames posted the new code here:

https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1253700#answer-1206689

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Thx, but I ask for JS code, not CSS.

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webref.pl said

Thx, but I ask for JS code, not CSS.

Why would there be JavaScript involved? JavaScript is not supported in userChrome.css files.

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With CSS I have some bug: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/99#issuecomment-475870631

So once again, I need JS code to run in chrome, if anyone see that code for CustomButton or userChrome.js then please share.

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MartyJames said

Thanks, the link you gave has the solution - a new code for Firefox 66! The code I had been using before was very long, but the new code is really small and simple. You just put this in your Userchrome file:
#PersonalToolbar {
  min-height: unset !important;
  max-height: unset !important;
/* text-align: center !important; */
}

#PersonalToolbar #PlacesToolbarItems {
  overflow-x: visible !important;
  overflow-y: visible !important;
  display: inline-block !important;
}

thank you very much!

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I encounter the same issue again after updating to Firefox 69.0.

Anyone can help me? The old css-code does not work :(

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Hi Harakiri, the items that do not fit on the first row have

style="visibility: hidden"

To counter that, add this to your existing set of rules (March 24th post):

#PersonalToolbar #PlacesToolbarItems toolbarbutton {
  visibility: visible !important;
}
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Many thanks jscher2000, this solved it.

Besides, I noticed Firefox 69 will no longer look for the userChromse.css file automatically and users need to "activate it" in
about:config 
and search for "userprof" and then change the value from false to true for
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets 
as described here.
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Harakiri said

Besides, I noticed Firefox 69 will no longer look for the userChromse.css file automatically and users need to "activate it" in
about:config 
and search for "userprof" and then change the value from false to true for
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets 
as described here.

If you are carrying over your existing settings from Firefox 68 to Firefox 69, the preference should already be true, but if it's a new profile or you didn't have userChrome.css set up before, you will indeed need to flip that preference yourself.

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Hi Jscher and thanks for all your amazingly helpful advice, as always! You're such a great guy!

I had the same problem when I upgraded to Firefox 69 so I started a new thread and Cor-el helped me (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1268036)

The solution that worked for me concerns this line of code:

@-moz-document url(chrome://browser/content/browser.xul)

I just changed ".xul" to ".xhtml" and it worked!

Modified by MartyJames