Comments on: Get Back your Screen Space: Maximize Firefox Viewing Area

By: RanMan

RanMan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:11:09 +0000

Raman, I agree. Autohide is the way to go. My setup basically has the tabs-only showing until I hover over the toolbar that I can have as many items (toolbars) as I like. It doesn’t matter how thick the toolbars are because they are unseen until you want to see them This is especially helpful when using a laptop with 15 screen.

By: Raman

Raman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:15:46 +0000

I use the autohide extension found at this site for saving my screenspace http://www.krickelkrackel.de/autohide/autohide.htm

By: Me

Me — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:55:55 +0000

Well, I can’t speak for others, but my issue is that I window things because I don’t have a panel and my clock and system monitor are there [in the bottom right corner] so I want them visible.

Also, it’s obvious that I’m a bit minimalistic (no panel/tray/etc) and these are great hints.

By: huckle

huckle — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:29:55 +0000

Your firefox is positively cluttered compared to mine – I have removed EVERYTHING except the address bar, and moved that onto the menu bar. I have hidden the navigation bar and the bookmarks toolbar. I use tiny menu to hide all the menus themselves.

I hide my statusbar with stylish and http://userstyles.org/styles/1515

I do use the stumbleupon toolbar but that can’t be hidden or anything so yeah, I am as minimal as it gets. Oh, and tabs i leave in the default tab bar – it’s pretty slisk already.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:49:46 +0000

I simple tip that I use every time with a new firefox installation is to move the “bookmarks toolbar items” from the bookmarks toolbar to above the address bar, then hide the bookmarks toolbar.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:36:50 +0000

I downloaded #4 above, Hide Tab Bar. But there are no directions for how to use it. It says there is a keyboard shortcut, but how do you find out what it is?

By: Manny Hernandez

Manny Hernandez — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:13:21 +0000

Great tips! I shared them with my readers at: http://manuelhp42.blogspot.com/2008/03/useful-firefox-add-ons-to-gain-space.html Also, I thought I'd add Tab Mix Plus to the list of add-ons in here. Very useful for stacked tab browsing, highlighting the current tab, etc.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:51:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing the great tips. It’s a shame TinyMenu doesn’t work on the Mac, I’d really like a function like that for Firefox on my Macbook Pro.

By: Soumyadip

Soumyadip — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:05:20 +0000

Yup, simply hit F11.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:40:37 +0000

Another usefull extension:

autoHideStatusbar
http://caspar.regis.free.fr/ahs/

This (obviously) hides the status bar, except when:
-a page is loading,
-or when you hover a link.