I am not sick. I am broken.

Firefox changed some of it’s defaults in version 2.0.  The new defaults are mind-numbingly bad in some places; and simply annoying in others.  Thankfully they can be fixed.  Here are a couple of the worst offenders and how to fix them.

Changing Back to shrinking Tabs in Firefox

  1. Open a new firefox tab.
  2. Type “about:config” into the address bar
  3. Type “tab” into the filter field.
  4. Change the settings of both “browsers.tab.tabClipWidth” and “browsers.tab.tabMinWidth” to 5
  5. Restart Firefox.

Use a single close button on Firefox

  1. Open a new firefox tab.
  2. Type “about:config” into the address bar
  3. Type “browser.tabs.closeButtons” into the filter field.
  4. Change value to “3” (without the quotes)
  5. Restart Firefox.