Firefox 57 and Tree Style Tabs BROKEN

It's amazing how much damage the new version of Firefox is inflicting to the user community.

If you are a Tree Style Tab user and HATE seeing the tabs being displayed on top and left at same time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736cji/how_to_hide_native_tabs_in_firefox_57_tree_style/

In a nutshell (on Windows)

open a cmd prompt
cd %APPDATA%
cd Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/
cd *** (whatever is named your profile.... no clue why they could not choose a fixed name...)
mkdir chrome

in this chrome folder, create a userChrome.css file with this content:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

/* to hide the native tabs */
#TabsToolbar {
    visibility: collapse;
}

/* to hide the sidebar header */
#sidebar-header {
    visibility: collapse;
}

and restart Firefox.... and pray that with next release they will not break everything again.

For the time being I have disabled the automatic update of Firefox...

In Linux, use about:config in the browser to find your Profile directory ( /home/centos/.mozilla/firefox/pmrfuuch.default in my case), then mkdir chrome etc etc. (see https://medium.com/@Aenon/firefox-hide-native-tabs-and-titlebar-f0b00bdbb88b )

Useful tips to install Firefox on the company's laptop

You are behind a firewall, which occasionally could prevent you from installing Flash Player. No worries: download the whole offline installer here and be happy. However it still requires admin rights, unfortunately.

You don't have Admin rights to install Firefox: don't worry, you can use the Portable edition

You keep getting an annoying popup "This web page is being redirected to a new location.". No worries, just follow instructions here ( about:config, then disable network.http.prompt-temp-redirect ).

Firefox hanging? Try disabling Flash plugin...

I was literally agonizing, every page making access to googleplus or other "ad" related sites was hanging forever, freezing the entire Firefox (what a silly threading model!!!! Do they retrieve data in the same UI thread???? Bad, bad, bad.....).

Anyway after disabling ALL plugins and extension, and enabling them one by one, I found out that the Flash plugin was the culprit. Now it's like flying....

Firefox history

In Firefox, history is kept in a file places.sqlite (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Viewing_the_browsing_history_-_Firefox )
You can install Firefox sqlite-manager plugin, open Firefox Menu (ALT key), Tools, SQLLite Manager:

https://code.google.com/p/sqlite-manager/wiki/FAQ#I_have_installed_SQLite_Manager,_but_I_cannot_find_how_to_start
The plugin works very well, it can show you the list of hosts that have been accessed. (table moz_hosts).

How to remove (hide) the Wikipedia personal appeal?

I have donated money before to Wikipedia, but now I am sick and tired to see the faces for the fathers and mothers founders (at least they could use good looking babes for their campaign!)

On Firefox, install

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
(needs restart)

To open the Adblock console:
chrome://adblockplus/content/ui/firstRun.xul

Then by browsing https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6347 I find the right expression for the AdBlock filter:

/w/index.php?title=*:bannercontroller

It seems to be working for all Wikipedia regional languages.

Let me know when they have removed the ad, I will consider giving more money to thanks them for having stopped this torture.

I hope I am not doing anything illegal with this post!

Talking about Firefox plugins, I really recommend
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
to display vertical tabs,
essential if you have a laptop with low vertical resolution.

Firefox REST plugin made in China

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient/

https://github.com/chao/RESTClient


just install it, restart Firefox, then enter

chrome://restclient/content/restclient.xul

(I know, we are using Firefox, not chrome...)

and it's pretty straightforward to use.... EXCELLENT STUFF!

You can do simple POST. I can't think of anything simpler to use.

Remember that for SOAP request you must post the entire SOAP Envelope:

http://www.w3schools.com/soap/soap_example.asp


Since lately the above plugin  is failing, I am not using this one, the Poster plugin