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Firefox CSS: Centered Bookmark Bar with Hidden Text

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I enjoy having my bookmark bar always showing, but the default styling is a bit much. This area is reserved for my most visited websites, a way to quickly jump from one to the other, and so seeing full names constantly is not necessary. Visually, I just think things should be centered and so there is that.

What This Changes

  • Hide the bookmark text but show it if you hover over an icon.
  • Adjust the padding around the icons so they aren’t so cramped together.
  • Increase the icons sizes to 18px each. Anything more and it starts to look a bit blurry.
  • Center the bookmarks and add a 2px padding below and above so they aren’t touching the edges of the bar.
  • Style the separators on the toolbar using an RGBA color that goes well with the Nordic Dark theme. You can adjust this color to anything else you want at any RGBA color picking website. Just replace rgba(77, 85, 101, 1) with whatever color you want.
Some icons are missing for privacy, but this is what it will look like. When you hover over an icon the name will then be shown for the icon.

The How

Changing the CSS in Firefox can seem complicated if you land at the official documentation pages, but it is a lot easier than that. A fair robust how-to page is housed on reddit and so I will not try to reinvent that wheel. Follow the link and when you get to the part about adding code, you can use what I have below.

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My Better Firefox

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The Firefox browser is my favorite. Its community driven and privacy minded. It may seem like a lot to adjust but its no different than what I have had to do in other browsers.

I will build this post up over time as I make new changes.

**UPDATE December 20th, 2024** Well, that was short lived. I have decided going forward to dish out my Firefox stuff in pieces. An all encompasing post just is not condusive to me actually sharing neat tweaks, extensions, or ideas that I have on Firefox.

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Adding Steam Games to the Menu Editor in KDE Plasma

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I recently made the switch from Linux Mint to Fedora KDE. I loved Mint, but my gaming has gotten a lot better since the move. In my time with Mint, I figured out how to add Steam games to the menu but I forgot to store this information before making the move. After figuring it out all over again, I am saving that knowledge here for myself.

This feels almost too short to be a post but I had a very difficult time finding this information here it is.

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Linux Mint: Removing Width and Height Minimums for Discord

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Discord software has a minimum width and minimum height that it locks the software to. It can not be resized below these dimensions. For me, this meant that I could not resize the window to fit my one vertical monitor. This is how to fix all of that.

Step 1: Finding the Folder

Navigate to…

“~/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/”

You can paste the file path into the file explorer and it should take you where you need to get to. If you are using other versions of linux, or different methods of install Discord, then a few google searches said alternative paths could be “~/.config/discord/ ” or “~/snap/discord/current/.config/discord”.

Step 2: Improving the Settings

Inside the folder will be a file called

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The Boring Image Software Post

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There is no fanfare for this post. I have been trying new image software the last few months and I thought I would share a few useful ones.

ScreenToGif

Quickly capture a series of images and turn them into a gif (or webp). Frames can easily be trimmed out and you can play with scaling and time. I had to adjust the settings a few times to get a reasonable file size that was appropriate for my blog posts. Sadly it is Windows only. You can see things in action in my Fauns in Peril post. Download from https://www.screentogif.com/ and visit their subreddit page or discord where the author frequently responds.

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