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Firefox is meant to be usable by people that have no idea what a middle click or an addon is. You are the exception, not the majority
Menu > Help > More troubleshooting information > Profile Folder > Open Folder
Edit your userChrome.css file:
How are people who don't even know their scroll wheel is also a button supposed to figure out something that complicated ?
Why isn't that just a checkbox on the settings page ?
[X] Please make browser tabs harder to use by putting more buttons on it !
Why is that imagined to be a "complicated weird thing people don't know they'd even want to do"
I wish software was more respectful of users' abilities instead of treating everyone has grandma's tech literacy level and make decisions for them !
There was no userChrome.css btw
So I made the file and put that code in
There has been no effects so I will have to reboot the browser.
So I'm pressing "reply" now so I don't lose this message ...
After restart
It only worked partially

I suspect youtube will eventually change something, and the rest of it will come back too
Thanks for trying though, but -> Firefox, this ISN'T good enough !
allow me to introduce you to my co-workers that manage the state power grid, who sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day, never knowing what a keyboard shortcut is, or that pressing 'shift+tab' can move your text cursor to the previous field, or, indeed, that the mouse wheel is also a button...
Well bless them, I'm sure they're really good a hand calculating the number of turns transformer need to have when they place an order
Most computer user that I meet also does not know what a middle click is or what it is for or why you would want to do that.
As such we should not design computers based on what they think they need
and interpret that this means "they don't want an option to remove extra tab buttons"