Until there's a stable/signed release you have to allow unsigned extensions; set `xpinstall.signatures.required` to false.
To hide the default tab bar I needed to put the following in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xyz123-profile-here/chrome/userChrome.css
#TabsToolbar > * {
visibility: collapse;
}
Some features, like autohide, aren't available with the new web extensions model, but otherwise works the same as pre-57 versions of TST.