lambdaurora/firefox-ui-fix

🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.

Lepton (old name: Proton Fix)

Table of Contents

• Lepton (old name: Proton Fix)
  • Introduction
  • Installation Guide
  • WHY Proton?
  • WHY Not Proton?
  • Padding Comparisons
  • FAQ

Introduction

Proton is Firefox’s new design, starting from Firefox 89.
Photon is the old design of Firefox which was used until version 88.

Proton’s overall feel is good, but there were a few things I didn’t like and wanted to improve.
That’s why this project was born, and Lepton to denote light theme layer.

Disclaimer: It works on Firefox 89 and above!!

Wiki
Installation Guide	Screenshots	Compatibility Issues Solution	Tips

(Lepton’s design ⬆️)

• Color
  • Default light/dark theme contrast enhancement
  • Colorful context menu
  • More dark mode support
  • GTK system theme support
  • Windows system theme support
  • Windows7 compatibility
• Icons
  • Panel
  • Context Menu
  • Global Menu
  • Library’s open context
• Padding Narrower
  • Tab
  • Panel
  • Menu
  • Density
  • Others…
• Tab Design
  • General:
    • Connect with toolbar(Buttons like tabs)
  • Selected:
    • Box Shadow: Highlight the selected tab
    • Bottom Rounding: Natural
  • MultiSelected
    • Adjust Color: Easily recognizable.
  • Unselect:
    • Divide Line: React to hover like chrome
  • Clipped:
    • Clearer Text: Adjusted clipped gradation
    • Closed Button: Visible on hover
  • Sound:
    • Remove Second Label
    • Show Favicon: Always show favicon
  • Container Tab:
    • Highlight line position: Displayed under tab.
• Button Design
  • New tab: Looks like tab
• Activity Stream Design
  • Search Bar:
    • Focused Shadow: Same as the accent color
    • Hand off to Awesomebar
  • Icons:
    • Size: Fill(Changes dynamically to your size)
• Error Page Design
  • Illustrations: Restore error page illustrations
• Others
  • Activate calculator at address bar
  • Smooth Scrolling
  • Mouse pointer for each context

Installation Guide

Script Installation (experimental)

Linux, mac users:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/master/install.sh)"

Windows users: Run powershell as administrator

Powershell -c "Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/master/install.ps1 -useb | iex"

Manual Installation

You can see the installation guide with screenshots on the wiki.

1. Download files
   • Click the green “:arrow_down: Code”-button above
   • Select “:package: Download Zip”
2. Find your profile directory
   • Open about:support in a new tab
   • Find the Profile Folder entry and click the Open Folder button
3. Copy downloaded files
   • Extract the downloaded zip file
   • Copy the user.js file to the previously opened profile directory
   • Create a new directory inside your profile directory called chrome
   • Copy the remaining files from the extracted zip-file into previously created the chrome directory
4. Restart Firefox
   • Click the Clear startup cache... at the top of about:support

If you prefer Photon, see Lepton’s photon-style.
If you prefer Proton, see Lepton’s proton-style.

WHY Proton?

I think a lot has improved.

(Proton’s design ⬆️)

• Neatly organized menu
• Icon beautiful enough to remind you of Edge
• Nice color scheme
• Satisfied Rounding
• Modal window & Scrollbar!!

WHY Not Proton?

However, there are also many flaws.

(Photon’s design ⬆️)

• Is it a tab or a button?
• Where are the menu icons?
• Icons in ActivityStream are too small
• Padding gaps are wide
• ⚠️ Address bar 3-point menu, screenshot moves to toolbar (can’t fix)

Padding Comparisons

• Photon (Quantum)
• Proton
• Lepton

FAQ

• Black pixels around the selected tab bottom corners
  

Please follow the Installation Guide,
or set about:config’s svg.context-properties.content.enabled to true .

• Some panel menu items doesn’t show
  

Please follow the Installation Guide,
or copy the icons directory to chrome .

• Less icons in the panel with photon-style
  

I didn’t put all the icons like before.