Reclaim screen real estate from firefox
Are you tired of toolbars and tabs slowly robbing you of your screen space? Here are some Firefox extensions you can use to help regain your precious screen real estate.
This has been tested using Firefox 3.5 go to www.mozilla.com/firefox/ to get firefox.
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How We Will Do this
Here are 3 ways we are going to regain our screen.
- Autohide toolbars
- Shrink Bookmark toolbar items to their favicons only
- Shrink tabs to their favicons
Install The Stylish Firefox Extension
Stylish is a very nice plugin for customizing the display settings of websites, it also has the ability to customize the look and feel of Firefox using CSS. Don't worry if you don't even know what CSS means, Stylish has a bunch of user contributed CSS that we will use so no coding is necessary.
- Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
- Click the "Add to Firefox" button and follow the directions given.
- Restart Firefox as directed
For more info about Stylish visit http://userstyles.org/
Autohide Google Toolbars
Next you need to decide how you want to hide your toolbars. Here are your options.
- Autohide All toolbars http://userstyles.org/styles/17154
- Autohide just your bookmark toolbar http://userstyles.org/styles/1228
- Autohide Just your Google toolbar http://userstyles.org/styles/12681
Install The Correct Stylish Styles
- To install a Stylish style go to the web page for the style.
- At the top of the page on the right is a menu
- Click the "Install with Stylish" button
- Click the Install button
Autohide Text In Toolbar, Display Favicon Only
- Go to http://userstyles.org/styles/1629
- At the top of the page on the right is a menu
- Click the "Install with Stylish" button
- Click the Install button
Add the Faviconize Tab Firefox Extension
- Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3780
- Click the "Add to Firefox" button and follow the directions given.
- Restart Firefox as directed
Congratulations you have just now reclaimed your browser space. Enjoy your feeling of empowerment!