I've removed the display area from Firefox, so I don't waste any valuable real estate on "web pages" - I just have 40 or so toolbars installed: Ask.com, Ask.net, Ask.biz, ask.xxx, etc....

I spend more time searching, bookmarking and tagging and without any of the boring "surfing" time!

clicknathan

I've been doing something similar for some time now. All my navigation buttons (back, forward, stop/reload and home), navigation and search bars are moved up into my menubar. I use the Tiny Menu and the Stop-or-Reload Button plugins to save a lot of space. I also use Searchbar Autosizer and autoHideStatusbar . Maximizes viewing area while minimizing clutter.

neuralien

I've been doing this for a while also, after I finally figured out how to do it. Now, I have a problem with the empty space on the title bar of Mozilla Firefox! I want that space used somehow also!

LessIsMore

I might get yelled at for this, but does anyone know how to make the bookmarks toolbar bigger? As in, it's one row tall now, I'd really like two.

TheDTrain

This is kinda what I'm doing... in my userChrome.css I hide any currently disabled toolbar button and my Stop and Reload are merged into one. I removed the search box in favor of using search keywords from the location bar. I hid the status bar and I use Fission to turn my location bar into a progress bar. It also displays any URL when I hover over a link. My bookmarks toolbar items, only two folders, are displayed beside my location bar. So right now my navigation toolbar has 3 buttons (Back, Reload, and the del.icio.us Tag). I love it.

dhaffner

I'm astonished he still has the Google search in there! Just define "g" as a keyword for the search, and get rid of that space-waster.

rlee

I've done this for a long time. My Firefox has two bars: menu and bookmarks.

The menu bar can't be removed (easily), but you can move things to it. I've got the back button, address bar and search box there.

The bookmarks toolbar has folders with my commonly used bookmarks, plus del.icio.us extension's buttons, and a tinyurl dropdown.

Pretty spartan, and I like it. Widescreen displays rather miss the point when it comes to web browsing - vertical screen space is more valuable than horizontal. Removing the toolbars helps. If I could remove the status bar easily, I would. Maybe a project for another day.

jtimberman

There are no new ideas ever, everything is the recycled genius of Mark. You might as well shut this site down.

brainstormu

This is nothing new. I covered it in Make Use Of last month - [www.makeuseof.com]

Mark

@DHaffner: I like what you say you have done to your Fox. I think I'll go look for Fission, and see if I can lose my status bar also. Not that I really need it on my widescreen, but nevertheless...

FreeBee

Nice going, Gina, but you're preaching to the converted :)

The only toolbar visible in my Firefox setup is the All-in-One Sidebar toolbar, which contains my navigational tools (forward/back buttons a.s.o.), a few buttons from the Google Toolbar, and some miscellaneous buttons. The Searchbox and Addressbar are both on my menubar, which in addition contains ONLY the following menus: File, View, History, del.icio.us and Tools.

Add to that a Tab bar and status bar, and picture this on a 1680x1050 screen. THAT's a lot of screen real-estate.

And then imagine all these blog-type sites, which only use a 800px (max) wide vertical strip of that and leave the rest of it blank... Why did I waste my time, I sometimes wonder.

FreeBee

Two other extensions to mention:

Tiny Menu [addons.mozilla.org] and All-in-One Sidebar [addons.mozilla.org]

Per JTimberman's comment about taking advantage of your widescreen monitor, All-in-One Sidebar is particularly great for pushing navigation to the side where you have more room.

ideoverse

This it is not a present time subject. I consider that there are other things of Firefox that nobody knows and are more interesting.

advancedovariancancersymptom.info

@TheDTrain: Whack this code into your userChrome.css:
/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar */
#bookmarks-ptf {display: block;} #bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator {display: inline;}
And if you want it to auto-hide (so it only pops up when you mouse over), check out this post.

OzTardis

@brainstormu: Well, he's partially right. This isn't new..at all.
I read about this on blogs sometime last year....

dkong1026

when is the firefox show and tell?

aidan_cage

I've tried putting all my icons, search bars etc on the menu row but found this triggered a strange error message to come up frequently during browsing. Sadly I'm back to 3 rows again but no more irritating messages.

davidaiii