First let me thank you for the wonderful addon! I would have etiher still be using an older firefox version, or spending weeks or months getting the right user chrome settings to get things working properly again.
Some questions, or perhaps bugs to report. These seem to be problems with compatibility with Tab Mix Plus.
When using TMP 0.4.1.6 (the current release version) and CTR with square tabs, and with tabs placed on the bottom (of the window itself), there are some visual errors in how tabs are displayed. I only tried to with square tabs (default) because the other types (like australized square tabs) were unappealing to me. Each lead to some graphical errors:
(I am using CTR's build-in method for highlighting the selected tab.)
All of these screenshots are at 800% resolution, taken from photoshop:
Here is what it looks like in firefox pre 28 (how it should preferably look):
http://postimg.org/image/58gmb5dp1/The key point is that the highlighting color does not bleed over the addon/status bar, the tab has a defined lower border, and the tabs side borders touch both its bottom border. The bottom border of the tab also "blends" with the highlighting color of the tab.
Here it is with the default tabs on top setting in CTR:
http://postimg.org/image/6ifjqx7f7/The highlighting bleeds over the the bottom of the tab into the addon/status bar, there is no defined lower border. The tab deck (or whatever ui mechanism it is that contains tabs, I will just call it the tab deck here) is 1 pixel higher than it is elsewhere.
Here it is with tabs on top v1 from CTR:
http://postimg.org/image/t7smqcav1/The first tab has lost its left border. The bottom border of the tab does not blend. (Notice though that the tab deck is at its correct height now, giving only 1 pixel of separation between the tab and the top of the deck, unlike with the default tabs on top setting.)
It isn't visible in the screenshot but there appears to be a double border between the tab deck and the addon/status bar. This mode also changes the background color of the tab deck for me, but this may be a personal userchrome setting. But it doesnt happen with the default and version 2.
Here it is with the tabs on top v2:
http://postimg.org/image/gne5hda1r/This is very nearly the same as the default setting except that the tab deck is at the correct position - 1 pixel above the tabs.
There are also some pretty minor compatibility problems with TMP:
-When using Tab Mix Plus 0.4.1.6 with CTR with the addon bar enabled, I very often (nearly 100% of the time) cannot move buttons placed on the
addon bar. I have to disable TMP to move the icons. This may be a TMP problem entirely, but I thought I would bring it up here just incase. It's minor because I rarely customize and restarting after customizing is not a big deal.
-Trying to customize when tabs on are on the bottom actually puts the tabs on top of the addon bar, so that the tabs overlap the addon bar. This can only be fixed with a restart. This also isn't a big deal due to the rarity of customization.
I am not worried about the minor problems but the visual difference between tabs when tabs are placed on the bottom pre-australis and post-australis is jarring to me. Is there anything I can do to return tabs to how they were before in firefox < 28?
