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Posted: **Fri Jan 11, 2019 11:59 pm**

With Firefox Quantum, the glorious age of Vimperator seems to finally be ending...

Thanks to Shin'ya Ueoka, there's Vim Vixen, which brings some of the vim(perator) feeling back to the current Firefox.

Since Vim Vixen doesn't hide the navigation toolbar by default, here's a short "HowTo for auto-hiding the navigation toolbar"

This is done by using a custom "userChrome.css" to hide/show toolbars.
Tested with Firefox Quantum 64.0 (on Xubuntu 16.04.1).

1) Download custom CSS for hiding the toolbar:

Tim Van den Eynde was so nice to put together collection of CSS files for userChrome mods, called: "UserChrome Tweaks".
One file there (by Alex Vallat?) does exactly what we need!
It's called: toolbars/auto-hide.css

2) Save it as "userChrome.css":
In your firefox profile folder (e.g. ~/.mozilla/firefox/asdfasdf.default/), create the subfolder "chrome".
Then save the "auto-hide.css" there and rename it to "userChrome.css" (Please preserve the uppercase "C").

3) Restart Firefox.
If everything is right, your navigation toolbar should now be hidden when opening firefox:

: Navigation toolbar: hidden (default)

It will show up when you hover your mouse over it though

: Navigation toolbar: shown (on mouse over)

Have fun!

Posted: **Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:02 am**

Here's the content of the "auto-hide.css" mentioned above (just in case):

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/*
 * Auto-hide the URL-bar and bookmarks bar, show on hover or focus
 *
 * Contributor(s): Alex Vallat
 */

:root[uidensity=compact] #navigator-toolbox {
  --nav-bar-height: 33px;
  --tab-min-height: 29px;
}

:root:not([uidensity]) #navigator-toolbox {
  --nav-bar-height: 39px;
  --tab-min-height: 33px;
}

:root[uidensity=touch] #navigator-toolbox {
  --nav-bar-height: 41px;
  --tab-min-height: 41px;
}

#navigator-toolbox {
  --tabbar-height: calc(var(--tab-min-height) + var(--space-above-tabbar));
  --trigger-area-height: 5px;
}

:root[chromehidden~="toolbar"] #navigator-toolbox {
  --tabbar-height: 0.1px;
}

#toolbar-menubar {
  margin-top: 0px !important; /* This is usually 0, but under Win7 can be given an extra 1px when not maximized */
}

/* Undo add of 4px extra margin on top of the tabs toolbar on Windows 7. */
/* Note: @media -moz-os-version does not work in userChrome.css (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418963) */
:root[sizemode="normal"][chromehidden~="menubar"] #TabsToolbar,
:root[sizemode="normal"] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive] + #TabsToolbar {
  padding-top: var(--space-above-tabbar) !important;
}

#nav-bar, #PersonalToolbar {
	/* Otherwise spacers will not count as hover-able areas */
    -moz-window-dragging: default;
}

:root:not([customizing]) #nav-bar
{
  overflow-y: hidden;
  max-height:0;
  min-height:0 !important;
  padding-top:0 !important;
  padding-bottom:0 !important;
  opacity: 0;
}

:root:not([customizing]) :hover > #nav-bar,
:root:not([customizing]) #nav-bar:focus-within {
  max-height: var(--nav-bar-height);
  opacity: 1;
  transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in, max-height 0.15s linear;
}

:root:not([customizing]) #navigator-toolbox {
  max-height: calc(var(--tabbar-height) + var(--trigger-area-height));
  min-height: var(--tabbar-height);
  margin-bottom: calc(-1 * var(--trigger-area-height));
}

:root:not([customizing]) #navigator-toolbox:hover,
:root:not([customizing]) #navigator-toolbox:focus-within {
  max-height: calc(var(--tabbar-height) + var(--nav-bar-height));
  margin-bottom: calc(0px - var(--nav-bar-height));
}

/* If the bookmarks bar is turned on, auto-hide that too */
:root:not([customizing]) #PersonalToolbar {
  max-height: 0 !important;
  min-height: 0.1px !important;
  opacity: 0;
  transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in !important;
}

:root:not([customizing]) :hover > #PersonalToolbar,
:root:not([customizing]) #navigator-toolbox:focus-within #PersonalToolbar {
  max-height: 4em !important;
  opacity: 1;
}

/* Lightweight Theme Support */
:root:-moz-lwtheme #nav-bar, 
:root:-moz-lwtheme #PersonalToolbar {
  background-color: var(--lwt-accent-color) !important;
  background-image: var(--lwt-header-image), var(--lwt-additional-images) !important;
  background-position: var(--lwt-background-alignment) !important;
  background-repeat: var(--lwt-background-tiling) !important;
}

#main-window[sizemode="normal"]:-moz-lwtheme #nav-bar {
    background-position-y: calc(-2px - var(--tabbar-height)) !important;
}
#main-window[sizemode="normal"]:-moz-lwtheme #PersonalToolbar {
    background-position-y: calc(-2px - var(--tabbar-height) - var(--nav-bar-height)) !important;
}

#main-window[sizemode="maximized"]:-moz-lwtheme #nav-bar {
    background-position-y: calc(-8px - var(--tabbar-height)) !important;
}
#main-window[sizemode="maximized"]:-moz-lwtheme #PersonalToolbar {
    background-position-y: calc(-8px - var(--tabbar-height) - var(--nav-bar-height)) !important;
}

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Backup copy of "auto-hide.css"