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Why can does FF29 not allow me to position Tabs on the bottom like it did before>

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ge00365
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It appears that the FF29 development team decided, on my behalf, to not allow me to decide where I want the Tabs positioned. When FF came out, it was aimed at giving the user community what they wanted (unlike its major competitor, Microsoft). But I am reading in support questions that this capability was removed with FF29 because it is better for us ... says who?

This posting may be a duplicate of others ... but that should tell the FF29 dev team what their user base wants. Keep FF flexible and user friendly!

It appears that the FF29 development team decided, on my behalf, to not allow me to decide where I want the Tabs positioned. When FF came out, it was aimed at giving the user community what they wanted (unlike its major competitor, Microsoft). But I am reading in support questions that this capability was removed with FF29 because it is better for us ... says who? This posting may be a duplicate of others ... but that should tell the FF29 dev team what their user base wants. Keep FF flexible and user friendly!

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the-edmeister
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You can provide feedback to Mozilla here:
https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback

This add-on - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabs-on-bottom/ - restores that feature.

cor-el
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The current Firefox beta release has the Australis interface that looks different than the user interface in the Firefox 28 and lower releases.
The browser.tabs.onTop pref pref no longer is supported in Firefox 29

You can look at the Tabs On Bottom or the Classic Theme Restorer extension to restore some lost functionality.

You can also move the tabs to the lower position just above the browsing area without using an extension with code in userChrome.css as basically you only need to give the Tab bar a higher -moz-box-ordinal-group value (most toolbars have a default -moz-box-ordinal-group:1 to show them in DOM order).