Tiny Menus for Firefox

Posted by Martin in Browsing, firefox  Tags: , , ,

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This tip is for those users who like to maximize the width and heights of web pages that they visit. You might have noticed that the menu bar in firefox takes up a complete row at the top of the screen. I always pondered with the thought that there had to be a way to make it either smaller or merge it with the navigation bar. Enter Tiny Menu.

Once installed Tiny Menu compresses the entries of the menu toolbar into one pull down menu which still has its own tool bar. Once this is done you are able to customize the appearance of firefox by right-clicking the toolbar and selecting customize. Once that is done you may move all the entries of the navigation toolbar up to the menu toolbar effectively eliminating one unnecessary row in firefox.

The last thing you have to do is of course remove the navigation toolbar completely to see the effect. Take a look at the picture below, this is how it could look once you are done customizing it.

tine menu firefox add on


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John says, November 8th, 2006   

I find your story very misleading. While this is a good extension and does serve a purpose it is not necessary to use this extension to have a one line bar. For the last year or so I have used one line for the menu and navigation bars and one line for bookmarks. Your story seems to indicate that you must have this extension to do that. All you have to do is click to customize the toolbar, move the objects that you want up to the menu bar, then uncheck the navigation bar. There are a lot of objects that you can place on the menu bar or not, it is your choice. I have the address (url) bar, back/forward arrows, reload, stop, new tab and new window. The other stuff I don’t use and get off the bar as quick as possible.

john

Martin says, November 8th, 2006   

John you are right, the only effect this has that you can have one toolbar for everything, that is what i ment.

Peter Huesken says, November 9th, 2006   

I agree with John.
And his suggestion delivers a nicer result with F11 as well.

Cheers,
Peter

Devdatta Akhawe says, November 9th, 2006   

Martin,
There is a noticable amt of horizontal whitespace (like 1 row) left over still. Any ideas on how I could remove that?

Martin says, November 9th, 2006   

Devdatta you would have to right-click the toolbar and select customize. Then you can move the icons to or from that toolbar. Please note that you can’t move the menu items..

Devdatta Akhawe says, November 11th, 2006   

Yeah I am talkin abt even after doing that.
Right now everything I want is in the topmost part but there is still a lil white space left over as a blank row.

Peter Huesken says, November 11th, 2006   

@Devdatta: You need to “then uncheck the navigation bar”, like John explained.

I found that John’s tips combined with the described extension gives a nice result.

Cheers,
Peter

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