Littlefox is a very popular theme for the Firefox web browser that has been designed for users who want to reserve as much screen estate as possible for websites displayed in the browser without losing functionality or usability. It achieves that primarily by minimizing the toolbars in the header and the status bar in the footer of the web browser.
It might take some time to get used to the new Firefox theme as it changes the display of the tabs quite a bit to gain as much screen estate as possible. The theme is also changing many of the icons including those in the navigation toolbar of the web browser but also scrollbars and other elements.
New themes do not always support all Firefox extensions. The software developer has taken extra care by ensuring that the Firefox theme is compatible with dozens of popular add-ons. The Littlefox theme is ideal for users who want to save screen estate. Might be ideal to run on a netbook where vertical screen space is limited. The downside is that the theme is not visually stunning at all but that is also not the purpose of it.
Some of the changes can also be achieved in other ways. You could check out our Setup Firefox To Use Minimal Screen Estate for some pointers on how to do that.
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here are a few extensions that will give the theme of your choice a minimalist layout and maximize screen real estate:
faviconize tab
tiny menu
hide caption
hide favicons
all in one sidebar
toolbar buttons
move location bar and search bar to menubar along with associated buttons. close navbar. put other buttons (provided by toolbar buttons) you need to use in the all in one sidebar strip.
i never have more than two toolbars open up top, using toggle menubar and toggle bookmarks bar buttons from my sidebar strip, i often have these closed and have none visable.
i have a widescreen and i also use verttabbar which places tabs on the right.
I have been aiming for the same on my netbook while keeping it visually pleasing: http://ethsza.deviantart.com/art/netbook-companion-121655507
Theme is chromifox, which I like the best nowadays. Also using:
-Tiny menu to replace the menu bar with a MENU button
-Firegestures as mouse gestures, that has a script to toggle Bookmarks Toolbar (hidden on the screenshot) and Menu Toolbar (can be hidden with Down-Right mouse gesture in my setup)
-Stop or reload button extension – it’s such an obvious behaviour that I can’t even understand why is it not the FF standard
-Can’t be seen on the screenshot, but I found a great way of saving space on the Bookmarks Toolbar by removing the names of bookmarks, only keeping their favicons. Might clutter the big picture a bit, but it is very efficient.
And of course there is always F11 for fullscreen, but I prefer to see my tabs.