Firefox Space-Saver
This is a demonstration on how in 5 minutes (or less) you can turn the default Firefox layout into a space-saving one, perfect for netbooks, small screens or heck any Firefox layout!
The Original
The Result
How?
Simple. First download the Tiny Menu plugin from the Firefox addons site. This addon compacts file, edit, view, history etc. into one small and simple menu in the top left corner.
Next, remove the bookmark toolbar which hardly anyone actually uses and remover the status bar. To do this go to Menu > View > Toolbars and untick bookmarks toolbar then in Menu > View also untick Status Bar.
To make the navigation buttons (back, forward, refresh, stop and home) smaller right click in a black space on the menu bar then click customise. From here there’s a little tick box at the bottom saying Use Small Icons, tick it.
All that’s left is to shuffle things around, move all your navigation buttons, the address bar and the search bar up next to the tiny menu then hide the navigation toolbar.
And ta da! There we have it. Easy.
Tags: change, firefox, mod, tiny menu, toolbar
The most useless bit is still there, though: the titlebar.
I actually use the bookmark toolbar all the time ! But thanks for the link to the Tiny Meny addon, i’ll check it out.
Stumbled
A smaller theme would also make a big difference. I also use the fullscreen mode on my netbook, which hides the address and tab bars until I need them.
Thanks for the comments
@J.V. – There is an addon to remove the title bar, which is okay, doesn’t look as good as chrome…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9256
@Opperjacky – I used to use the bookmark toolbar too, until things got quicker to find using my home-made homepage