1752903 - browser compactmode has ceased to work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Steps to reproduce:

I have just updated to 96.0.3 from 95.0.2. I am using windows 10 on a desktop pc.
When I start firefox and look at bookmarks the spacing is now very large. I have attempted to switch on browser.compactmode in about:config but this no longer works.

Actual results:

I have a lot of bookmarks and so when the new UI was introduced I reverted to the old one in order to keep the spacing between bookmarks. This was satisfactory for some months but with v96 I am back to the very large spacing between bookmarks. The other changes with the new UI are not a problem but this is.

Expected results:

Browser.compactmode should be controllable by the user. Alternatively some other means of adjusting the spacing between drop down lists is necessary.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[u597032]

Go to about:config and set "browser.compactmode.show" to true
Go to Customize toolbar
Select Density
There you have 3 options now (Normal, Touch and Compact).

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Thank you for your assistance, sadly it does not work. The three options are Normal, Touch and Compact (not supported).
I will try to attach a screendump to this bug.

I have tried selecting Compact (not supported) but unsurprisingly it does not work.

Comment 4

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Attachment: bug-1752903.jpg

Customize toolbar then Select Density does not allow Compact mode.

Comment 5

[u597032]

Interesting...Compact works for me just fine on the latest version of firefox if you activate it that way