ShyFox 3.8.1

Shy on surface, but heavy inside

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Usage

Install

Step 1 - Download files

• Download and unzip theme files

Step 2 - Configure extensions

• Install Userchrome toggle Extended

  Configure Userchrome toggle Extended

  
  You need to turn on "Allow multiple styles to be active together" and turn on the first four toggles. If you will be using a popup, enable "Close popup after clicking toggle" and rename the toggles for convenience. Play with the rest of the settings as you wish. Make sure you click "Apply changes" button after all  It would also be nice to customize the shortcuts for toggles. I recommend these:  
  

• Install Sidebery

  Configure Sidebery

  
  If you used Sidebery before, it would be better to reset its settings to default. Then import `sidebery-settings.json` from unzipped theme files 
  

Step 3 - Moving files to a profile folder

• Find your profile directory

• Close Firefox

• Move chrome folder and user.js file from unzipped theme files into your profile directory

  Profile folder structure

  
  ```js {random characters}.default-release // Profile folder itself |_ chrome // chrome folder you put in | |_ userChrome.css | |_ userContent.css | |_ ShyFox | | |_ ... // css files | |_ icons | | |_ ... // svg icons | |_ wallpaper.png | |_ wallpaper-light.png |_ user.js // user.js file you put in |_ ... // a lot of files that was there before ```
  

• Open Firefox

Step 4 - Buttons layout

• Go to the customizing page. > More tools > Customize toolbar

• Move buttons to something like that:

  Customizing menu

  
   > NOTE > If you don't add `Flexible Space` to the right toolbar, all buttons except `Menu` and `Extensions` will be centered on the panel
  

[!NOTE] System theme - auto can cause problems in some cases

Upgrading

• Migrate from old version

  Migrate from 2.0

  
  If you migrating from 2.0 you need delete fx-autoconfig. To do it, at first clean up `chrome` folder, at second delete `config.js` and `/defaults/prefs/config-prefs.js` from Firefox installation folder.
  Migrate from 3.4

  
  If you migrating from 3.4 you need to reset Sidebery settings to default and import new ones.

• In other cases redo the installation steps 1 and 3 is enough for updating to new ShyFox version

Customization

If you don't like the way the standard dark and light themes look, you can colorize your ShyFox!

There are three ways you can do it, choose one:

• Install some theme from Firefox Add-ons (not all will be well compatible)
• Color your browser yourself with Firefox Color. Presets from screenshots: pink, turquoise, private

• Install the Adaptive Tab Bar Color extension and then ShyFox will adapt to the colors of the currently open website.

  Recommended Adaptive Tab Bar Color settings

  
   > NOTE > If you make the `Tab bar` and `Toolbar` `Background` colors the same, the pull-down hidden panels will have a transparent background.
  

[!NOTE] Use only one thing. Adaptive Tab bar Color and Firefox Color are not compatible

You can change new tab wallpaper to your own. There is two wallpaper files in chrome folder:

• wallpaper.png - for dark theme
• wallpaper-light.png - for light theme

To use one image for all themes just delete wallpaper-light.png.

You can change theme accent color. To do it change value of --shy-accent-color variable in chrome/ShyFox/shy-variables.css. You can also equate it to the fill color of the buttons. See options below

Options

Settings that can be toggled via about:config

** - On macOS you need to disable native context menus to see icons. widget.macos.native-context-menus => false

Overview

Panels

The browser interface has been divided into three panels:

• On left - Sidebar - Just Sidebery. Functionality of this extension is incredible. It is in charge of managing tabs and bookmarks. Above the main sidebar is a small bookmarks bar.
• On top - Navbar - panel where you can find the address bar and everything related to it
• On right - Toolbar - a panel with customizable buttons

Toggles

The core of the theme is the Userchrome toggle Extended extension. With the help of toggles added by it the main feature of this theme is realized.

Each of three panels has two states - visible and hidden. This state can be toggled independently for each panel.

Panel state	Image
Visible
Hidden
Hidden (on hover)

The visible state is normal state, panel is just there on the screen. In hidden state panel moves out of the window border and a bar appears on the border, when hovering over it panel moves out. Note that panels in a hidden state can show useful information. The top bar will show the page load progress (not very accurate), and the right bar will show the file download progress (very accurate).

There is also a fourth toggle - Clean Mode. When Clean Mode is activated, the previous toggles are ignored and entire browser interface is hidden without any possibility to interact with it. Simply put, Clean Mode removes everything unnecessary, leaving you alone with the currently open website. Note that you can only exit it with a keyboard shortcut.

Normal mode	Clean mode
Sidebar and navbar hidden, toolbar visible. Hidden panels accesible on hover.	All panels hidden independent on previous three toggles. All panels are inaccessible.

Non-Sidebery mode

All tab management in ShyFox has been moved to Sidebery. And the sidebar in normal situations is completely given over to this wonderful extension.

If the sidebar is closed, you'll see a notification with a red border saying "Open sidebar!". You should also see a red colored sidebar button somewhere.

If sidebar is open but no Sidebery is there, the sidebar will take a slightly different shape, separating it's content from the main interface. This is where you can work with the built-in sidebars and extensions that open in the sidebar. In the sidebar header, you'll see a notification telling you that you should open Sidebery to work with tabs. If Sidebery is unavailable for some reason and you need to access tab management without it, you can find the "Enable native tabs" option in the sidebar header menu. Clicking on this item will enable the tab strip floating above the page content. In the same way you can turn it off. Native tabs are needed for emergencies, don't use this all the time.

Default sidebar appearance	Sidebar closed	Not Sidebery oppened

Native tabs toggle	Red sidebar button	Tooltip when dragging in edit menu

Additional information

• The theme works and is only tested on the latest version of Firefox. Firefox-based browsers, ESR versions, or just older versions are not supported. It may work, but I am not responsible for it.
• Support for macOS is limited. Theme works, but I personally can't test it there, because I don't have a mac.

Thanks

• MrOtherGuy - Thanks for the fx-autoconfig (not used here anymore) and the repository with cool css's.
• MightyFox concept - Thanks for the cool concept and main idea.
• arcticfox-theme - I used this theme as a base to create my own, but there was a bit of commonality left in the process.
• Lepton - I gained a lot of knowledge by investigating this project. I also took the icons from there
• minearchive - That's where I got this wallpaper

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