What’s the tab position in your Firefox? are “Tabs on Top” or on bottom? by default from Firefox 4 onwards Mozilla puts Tabs on Top and they offered the option on Options submenu where user can uncheck and put tabs on bottom again, we don’t know about others we always prefer tabs position on bottom and that’s why we found that option quite useful after installing Firefox, but now what happened! Mozilla removed Tabs on Top option in Firefox 16 15 Beta, Mozilla might get some criticism for this minor change which can be similar to some what happened in case of http:// protocol, fortunately they’ve offered the preference in about:config to put the tabs on bottom again.
Disable Tabs on Top in Firefox 15 Beta or bring tabs on bottom
1. Type about:config in browser, agree to the warning
2. Find and toggle the preference “browser.tabs.onTop”value to false and restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.
3. Now you can see Tabs on bottom and Tabs on Top option also back.
Let me tell you don’t lose this option if you upgrade from Firefox 14 to Firefox 15 you can still spot it if you reset Firefox 15, but users who perform clean installation of Firefox 15 Beta will know this straight away.
You’re a live saver! This also applies to version 14
You’re welcome and the change introduced in Firefox 15 not in !4.
Thank you! This is a very stupid change. I hate them on top.
You’re welcome, we also prefer tabs on bottom.
Thank you thank you thank you…
It’s NOT CORRECT to have tabs on top.
And the guys at Firefox even had the obnoxious guts to put up a page to explain why it’s better to have the tabs on top.
NO. When the tabs are on top, everything below it belongs to the current tab. No, no! May I say stupid.
Thanks for the guide. I’m getting increasingly annoyed at having to go into about:config more and more often because each new release makes irritating little changes like this. If Mozilla continues on this route, they alienating casual users who aren’t comfortable editing Config preferences.
Thanks Venkat for this solution. It worked perfect with my Firefox 15.0
Now I have the tabs on bottom where I prefer them :)
You rock dude .. having the option to have tabs on bottom was one of the main reasons I switched from IE .. always hated the look and feel of IE9..
Welcome to Techdows.
Even if you had it in 13, 14, and then 15; and once on 15 you start FF in safe mode – you will lose the option and need to edit the about:config as stated above to get it back. TY for letting us know about this.
Remove the good features, introduce the stupid ones.
That seems to be the Mozilla credo.
thank you thank you thank you
i have been looking for an hour and now i fixed it and it was easy and everything went smoothly
thank you
You’re welcome here.
Thanks! I wasted precious time looking for a solution for this annoyance. Your tip did the trick.
Thanks, having tabs on the bottom is a lot of the reason why I use firefox (the rest of which is being able to separate stop and refresh, and to make the forward buttom permanently visible).
If Firefox removes the ability to put the tabs on the bottom completely, I would be tempted to not update or look for another browser; it’s sad that this trend of copying other browsers (safari?) has somehow threatened Firefox’s once very impressive amount of customizeability, which is extremely important to me, and why I never enjoyed using browsers like Chrome or the newer IEs for extended periods of time.
Thx a lot, it also works for FF 16 :)
Works for all future versions too.
i thank you, my wife thanks you an so do all our kiddies :P
when developers dont listen to the users, this is what happens.
keep it up, an i will switch to chrome
Glad your whole family found my post useful and you guys are welcome. We’re here to offer information that makes general users happy.
working. thx
Welcome.
Many thanks for this work-around. Whatever happened to the internet being for everyone? Mozilla staff may think they know best, but they have chosen to ignore the above internet principle. I am physically disabled and use a switch system in-place of a mouse and Dragon Dictate instead of a keyboard. To use these systems I need to be able to tailor functions and I found that the switch could not locate the tabs on top in Firefox 15 as it was set to use tabs below the toolbars. Sure, I could reset the switch system, but have always preferred to reset the applications individually. Mozilla MUST listen to users and allow us to tailor software to individual need.
Hooray for James’ reply! Never thought of it that way, being non-disabled, glad you shared! And it also work perfectly for me too. I reset my pc & had to reinstall firefox. I just didn’t feel at home behind my computer with those tabs on top!