Comments on: Minimal Firefox [HOW TO]

By: Leo Zerleg

Leo Zerleg — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:21:39 +0000

You always can use the extensions in 'Minimal Look', they make the interface much smaller and cleaner.

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By: Niels Egberts

Niels Egberts — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:18:58 +0000

Thanks a lot! I really like to have as much content on my screen

By: ben2talk

ben2talk — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:55:24 +0000

Good – but not too great. You can right click and hide ALL toolbars for browsing – no tabs and no menu! I use tinymenu, but also don’t want to lose my view of conky or gwibber applications, so I simply right click maximise to use maximum VERTICAL screenspace and remove the statusbar and menu bars from the top and bottom. I don’t like fullscreen or maximised windows to take over the desktop unless I’m doing something intensive like video or audio editing.

So add-ons: Fission is good, but had a problem with Yahoo-Mail (it never loaded, continually trying to reload, but I did love this add-on apart from that. It’s simply disabled, not uninstalled, waiting for updates)

Firegestures is essential, of course, to use the browser without having buttons on view – draw a quick L to close a page, roll the wheel to scroll tabs – takes away the need to move and click stuff all the time.

‘Hide All Toolbars’ is a nice one – careful about the shortcut (F4 may clash – can be disabled, because this is accessible through a right click on the browser) – it leaves the tabs visible, and ’stumbleupon’ which I can further remove with a right click. So now I have a window decoration. The skin can make a difference – using compiz on gnome, you can find some very tiny borders. I have a matching ’sunday’ emerald theme, but prefer a very slim window border called ‘blue carbon’ – so switch from the ‘compiz-fusion’ icon. The other tweak is the ‘application font’ which I recently changed to ‘Book Antiqua’ – nicely spaced out horizontally, but it gives beautifully compact menu’s and toolbars – so I have a 10-pixel window decoration, and around 5 pixels at the bottom – with the window around 1025 wide, leaving me the balance of my 1440 widescreen to see other things.

Firefox add-on I think called ‘mixtabsplus’ enables me to choose to open tabs in a new window, merge windows, stuff like that – if I want to view a page with no tab bar.

Happy surfing

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:57:33 +0000

Thank you for these gems !

May I also suggest the stop-or-reload button ? Saves quite some space

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/313

By: Chris Tomalty

Chris Tomalty — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:02:09 +0000

Excellent How-To. My Firefox looks exactly like I’ve always wanted it to.

Kudos.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:39:39 +0000

Yes it does. At least, if you choose Fullscreen from the View menu. I’ve noticed that F11 doesn’t always follow this behaviour.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:13:32 +0000

Hey Mackenzie .
Firefox 3 doesn’t hide tabs in full screen.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:37:25 +0000

Why the fuller screen extension? That’s the standard behaviour in Firefox 3.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:58:55 +0000

you should check out the firefox extension called fission. It puts the most important thing that is usually in the statusbar (progress, and the address of the link you are hovering over) into the address bar