You can automatically hide the taskbar in Windows so that it only becomes visible if you move your mouse over the area where it is hidden. This is extremely practical if you want to make most of your computer screen. Panel Hider [via Shellcity] takes that concept and provides the feature for any open window [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Pressing F11 in Firefox displays the current website in full screen mode removing many of the toolbars and buttons that are not required to view a website. There is however no obvious possibility to change the appearance of the full screen view mode of Firefox.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I was reading about Autohide yesterday over at lifehacker and had the plan to try it today to see if it was a useful add-on for mozilla firefox. Autohide manipulates the interface of firefox when entering fullscreen mode (F11) – you can select to (auto) hide certain bars and menu entries to have more space for the website itself. The following settings can be changed:

Categories: Browsing, Firefox