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How to make a minimal Firefox
by Jordan Running Oct 27th 2006 at 5:48PM
In her never-ending quest for interface perfection, Lifehacker Gina Trapani has written a great Geek to Live tutorial called Consolidate Firefox's chrome. In it she teaches you how to pare down Firefox's menus, toolbar, address back, and bookmarks toolbar until all that's left is what you absolutely need. To be specific, you'll learn how to eliminate entire menus from the menubar, how to keep toolbar buttons hidden when they're not available, get rid of the Go and Search buttons, and how to organize your bookmarks for maximum accessibility and minimum clutter. The tutorial does require you to edit Firefox's userChrome.css, so if that makes you squeamish, well... now's as good a time as any to get over it.
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digitalrift said 8:22PM on 10-27-2006
A true minimalist should look for the Compact Menu extension, which packs the firefox menu into one single button.
Also, the stop-or-reload button eliminates the need to go through trickery to hide the stop button, instead displaying only the stop or the reload buttons at any given time.
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mikel said 9:55PM on 10-27-2006
Or one could just get a good 19 inch widescreen LCD for around 200 bucks with a resolution big enough that it wont look cluttered anyways. just my two cents..
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FF2 said 10:27PM on 10-27-2006
So he saved 32 pixels in height... no complaints. It would be cool if "Compact Menu" worked on FF2.
But why do you want a WIDE screen LCD? I'd rather have a 4:3 LCD so I get more height. Or a pair of 4:3 LCDs. :-) The only point of WIDE screens is to watch DVDs, which I do on my TV, not my computer.
Example: Wide = 1440x900. Std = 1280x1024.
Give me the extra 124 pixels of height any day. Everything I read is vertical (tall) not wide.
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Jordan Running said 2:47AM on 10-28-2006
FF2: With a widescreen monitor you can have two windows open side-by-side. :)
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Simon Lim said 1:48PM on 10-28-2006
I'm way off topic here:-
FF2, Jordan Running: With a wide screen monitor you can also rotate it 90 degrees and now you got yourself a monitor that is as tall as it can be wide. Killing 2 birds with a stone if you asked me.
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