Mac Tips

27 Jan 2018

Overview

Here I compile various tips and tricks I’ve found useful on my mac.

Mac does not display properly on external display

Sometimes connecting to an external display can result in a pixilated looking image with bad aliasing. To address this issue, follow this blog post.

Set up Tree Style Tabs on Firefox

• Install Tree Style Tabs plugin
• Remove horizontal tabs
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736cji/how_to_hide_native_tabs_in_firefox_57_tree_style/
  • https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-userchromecss
  • File location: /Users//Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles//chrome/userChrome.css

export x=\`ls "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/"\`
mkdir "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/$x/chrome"
cp userChrome.css "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/$x/chrome/userChrome.css"

Press F1 to show/hide tab tree once installed