How to make Firefox look like Chrome ?

[OldGrantonian]

I'm giving Firefox a try after about 20 years (for privacy). That's the time I moved in the opposite direction (for blinding speed).

My first impression is that the FF UI looks "thin, spindly, unhealthy, underfed", and so on.

I would be grateful if someone could advise me on how to make FF look like Chrome.

Chrome:

https://imgur.com/dqxR9AC

Firefox:

https://imgur.com/TiAAXLf



Zoom for Chrome is 125%. For FF is 120%. That's the closest I can get for matching. Next zoom up for FF is 133%, which gives a 1.8 inch margin at the left.

Here are differences that I can see:

- The difference in fonts is clear.

- "Yesterday" top L is highlighted in blue for C.

- "All" top L is highlighted in blue for C.

- For C, third row in table is coloured grey.

- Three columns in Chrome are highlighted.

BTW: When I made the change from FF to Chrome 20 years ago, I don't recall seeing much difference between the UIs.

[malliz]

Seeing Chrome was only released in 2008 I am not too sure what you are going on about. Maybe stop the hyperbole

[WaltS48]

Maybe the reporter should try Firefox in safe mode or a test profile.

I see the "New Deaths" highlighted in red and text at 100% looks fine on that site using Firefox 78.0.2, 79.0b9 and 80.0a1 here.

[DanRaisch]

Can't see why anyone would want to mess up Firefox that way but "jedem sein eigenes", or, in French, "à chacun son goût."

Oh, and test current version against current version and I doubt you'll see a lot of difference in speed between the two browsers.

[OldGrantonian]

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@WaltS48
Thanks for your response.

Maybe the reporter should try Firefox in safe mode...

Done. No change - exactly as screenshot in my OP.

..or a test profile.

That worked fine.

I made no modifications to the test profile. I now see a page that looks like the Chrome screenshot in my OP.

I see the "New Deaths" highlighted in red and text at 100% looks fine on that site using Firefox 78.0.2...

I am using 78.0.2. The default (unmodified) profile is what produced the strange FF screenshot in my OP.

Conclusion: Everything is looking fine.

Thanks for your help.

[dickvl]

Note that is the view you get when you disable website colors or use a High Contrast theme.
Options/Preferences -> General: Fonts & Colors -> Colors: "Override the colors specified by the page with my selections above"

[OldGrantonian]

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Note that is the view you get when you disable website colors or use a High Contrast theme...

@dickvl thanks for response.

I discovered that for myself about half an hour ago. I logged in just now to report it

As part of my FF configuration program to make FF look like Chrome, I wanted my "visited link" colour to be red (as in the Chrome screenshots in my OP).

My current satisfactory solution for Chrome is to use the "Stylus" add-on with the following CSS:

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a:visited { color: red ! important }

For FF, I wanted to use the famous built-in features, rather than dozens of add-ons. But Stylus works in FF as well - with the same simple CSS and no wreckage.

Thanks for your help.
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[MozillaMonkey]

Seeing Chrome was only released in 2008 I am not too sure what you are going on about. Maybe stop the hyperbole

He could be living on a planet where one Earth year is equal to 1.67 of his years?