It's my understanding that the way LTs work is to download the pictures for whatever the last selected one was and then use those. Currently these are in the "lwtheme" folder in my profile and are called "lightweighttheme-footer-1280x1024" and "lightweighttheme-header-1280x1024", without any file extensions. What I want to know is can I just replace those files with pictures that I want to use? All sources I've found have said that the dimensions should be either 3,000px wide and 100px tall or 3,000px wide and 200px tall, so I assume that the numbers listed there aren't in fact correct dimensions.
I would just try this, but I don't want to risk the possibility of breaking anything irreparably, even if I can probably just rename the files with an extension of "backup" and restore them if I do.
The second, and possibly more difficult question is about tab height. I used to use the Classic Compact theme, but that broke when 29 came out and the author appears to have disappeared from the internet since saying he was working on updating it. Unfortunately, this has spoilt me for screen space, and I really dislike tall tabs. I've not yet found a theme that effectively (and attractively) gives me small tabs. I've tried looking at a couple of how-to guides to create my own theme entirely, but it's way beyond my skill set.
What I have found, though, is some places talking about adding code to the userChrome.css file I've got. Specifically, this code:
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@namespace url
(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.tabbrowser-tabs *|tab {
font-size: 12px !important;
height: 15px !important;}
The problem is that Firefox doesn't like this very much and, rather than actually making the tabs smaller, what this does is make only the top part of them be counted and the rest of the tab extend below the line where the tab is supposed to end. Furthermore, it makes it odd and clicking on one tab may actually activate the tab below. It's extremely ugly, difficult to read what tab is what, and hampers functionality.
Is there any way to make Firefox take up less screen real estate while keeping it functional and not ugly? A way, that is, that doesn't require me to learn a great deal of coding and create lots and lots of files?
Any help and/or advice greatly appreciated.