Comments on: Setup Firefox To Use Minimal Screen Estate

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:53:38 +0000

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3OOdjAtKEU

By: Jonny

Jonny — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:50:37 +0000

You can also alter some things in about:config, so that the navigation buttons dissappear when not in use (when greyed out). The Smart Bookmarks Bar Addon can minimize your bookmarks to an icon, it;s very useful. For additional space, use minifox or similar minimized themes, they restrict the space between icons and buttons. Worked well for me.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:26:44 +0000

Thank you for these tips,
I could not get the Hide Caption to work as describe on my machine it just display the page title on the same bar as the browsing buttons … do you have an alternative add-on ?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:20 +0000

A good add-on to use with this setup is Fission, which shows your loading bar behind the page URL. I have a couple of other space-saving measures for netbooks outlined in my guide on msiwind.net :)

http://forums.msiwind.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3371

By: Loon

Loon — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:50:32 +0000

Thanks for this. FF should be set up like this by default.

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By: Aputsiaq

Aputsiaq — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:05:11 +0000

Great post and great comments. When I use F11 (fullscreen) and normal screen, I use “alt-D” (to enter new url) and “alt-D + TAB” to move into my search-field.
Using F11 with a LCD-resolution width of 1900px seldom makes sense, though – it’s only the height I’m interested in. What I miss is F11-like functionality for the height only without loosing “Status bar”.
I’ll be looking into your suggestions, thank you.

By: Pandian

Pandian — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:36:36 +0000

Thanks, Thats the great firefox tip.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:58:04 +0000

This is one fine guide to make some of the firefox annoyances go away. Thank you.

By: codyp

codyp — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:33:32 +0000

Thank you so much. All other minimal schemes just did not work for me. I have a bit of a tweaked version of this. but the tab hider and removing the top bar is so sweet. thank you for sharing.

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By: Bernard

Bernard — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:22:06 +0000

I am using Tab Mix Plus, but I don’t see how that interferes with this? It might, I haven’t really dug into it. Besides the tab hiding, everything else seems to work fine. Nice trick! :-)

I have the StumbleUpon toolbar as well, it’s been compressed down to a couple of buttons to fit in the menu toolbar, but it totally screws up the overlay with the other items.. :/

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:06:35 +0000

Bernard no I did not have that problem. Are you using any other tab related add-on?

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By: Bernard

Bernard — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:50:41 +0000

I experienced a little trouble with the hide caption addon; For some reason all of the tabs displays a constant “Loading…” instead of the page title. Anyone else with this problem?

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:32:14 +0000

great tips
thx for this article

By: zach

zach — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:43:19 +0000

Actually i use keyconfig to hide all the bars except titlebar, and access my most visited websites through keywords.

By: Gopal V

Gopal V — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:59:07 +0000

Great tips…Really useful to save some real estate…

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:06 +0000

looks very good tips we can have a choice of screen size instead of using the full screen mode.
thanks for all of these tips
:)

By: Shriram R

Shriram R — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:33:24 +0000

Awesome, thanks … wow … now my screen can compete with chrome !!! YEY