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I've customized my Firefox to be more compact than Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/fPG3k.png http://i.imgur.com/fPG3k.png

by ElbertF 16y ago

kingsidharth 16y ago
How did you do that?
- toni 16y ago
  Firefox 4 (Minefield) has the option to stack tabs on top.
  - Groxx 16y ago
    Does it do that always though, or only in full-screen? The 4 betas do it in full screen on Windows, never explored in OSX. I essentially never browse full-screen, there are too many 960px fixed-width websites out there, so it's just wasting 500px where I can have other things open.
    - toni 16y ago
      On Windows, Minefield nightly does it in normal mode. In full-screen mode you don't see any ui element at all. By the way, "Tabs on Top" is an option accessible by main context menu. You can enable/disable it just like menubar and bookmarks toolbar.
      - Groxx 16y ago
        sorry, meant "maximized". Full-screen is a bit different, yes. I don't know that I've seen the "tabs on top" preference... they're always on the top, with plugins doing side-tabs. I'll look for it some time though.
        toni 16y ago
        Yes, you can see them also with maximized window. Here is a screenshot to find the option: http://i.imgur.com/6JJcU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6JJcU.jpg I think they enabled it by default a while back to further match Chrome ui.
- shii 16y ago
  The blue icon to the top left shows that this is Minefield[1] (codename for nightly builds of Firefox). Also, it has a dropdown arrow, showing that this is probably using the Hide Menu Bar[2] addon. The lack of usual menubar/chrome of the browser can be explained by the use of Awesomewm[3] or dwm[4]. Firefox 4+ builds all have the same tabbing as in the screenshot. Also, the bookmarks toolbar has been dragged to the same line as the addressbar and all bookmarks and bookmark folders have no name, thus only showing their favicons, which is the default behavior. Also, the grandparent comment has apparently moved the status bar to the top, on the same level of the tabs. This is new to me, and maybe the default behavior in current nightly builds of Firefox. If I may be so bold, I'd wager this author is using Arch Linux, since awesomewm is very popular with that group of users, and because of the rolling-release cycle nature of Arch, resulting in the latest builds of Firefox. [1]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-menubar-4762/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-menubar-... [3]: http://awesome.naquadah.org/ http://awesome.naquadah.org/ [4]: http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/
  - toni 16y ago
    > Also, the grandparent comment has apparently moved the status bar to the top, on the same level of the tabs. This is new to me, and maybe the default behavior in current nightly builds of Firefox. That's not the status bar, it's a couple of toolbar buttons dropped on the right side of the tabbar. Minefield doesn't have a status bar anymore. It's renamed to "Add-on Bar" and is used only for placing addons' icons.
    - shii 16y ago
      Sweet, didn't know about the new change in Minefield. Thanks for the heads up!
      - toni 16y ago
        Firefox 4 (out-of-the-box and on the surface) is going to look more and more like the current Chrome. A new breed of Firefox extensions will surface very soon to hack away a lot of ui stuff back to 3.6 (Namoroka) branch. ("classic" status bar, "classic" tabs, things like that...)
- ElbertF 16y ago
  Just by moving stuff around. Addons to the tab bar, bookmarks to the address bar. I used an addon to compress the menu and moved it to the tab bar as well. I then removed the empty menu and bookmarks toolbars. I'm using Firefox 4. Oh and having no window decorations helps too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/compact-menu-2/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/compact-menu-...
pc-pro-schools 16y ago
sexy...
kejadlen 16y ago
Me too (http://min.us/mvj29Ld http://min.us/mvj29Ld), mainly using Pentadactyl[1]. [1]: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

I've customized my Firefox to be more compact than Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/fPG3k.png http://i.imgur.com/fPG3k.png

by ElbertF 16y ago

I've customized my Firefox to be more compact than Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/fPG3k.png http://i.imgur.com/fPG3k.png

kingsidharth 16y ago

How did you do that?

toni 16y ago
Firefox 4 (Minefield) has the option to stack tabs on top.
- Groxx 16y ago
  Does it do that always though, or only in full-screen? The 4 betas do it in full screen on Windows, never explored in OSX. I essentially never browse full-screen, there are too many 960px fixed-width websites out there, so it's just wasting 500px where I can have other things open.
  - toni 16y ago
    On Windows, Minefield nightly does it in normal mode. In full-screen mode you don't see any ui element at all. By the way, "Tabs on Top" is an option accessible by main context menu. You can enable/disable it just like menubar and bookmarks toolbar.
    - Groxx 16y ago
      sorry, meant "maximized". Full-screen is a bit different, yes. I don't know that I've seen the "tabs on top" preference... they're always on the top, with plugins doing side-tabs. I'll look for it some time though.
      - toni 16y ago
        Yes, you can see them also with maximized window. Here is a screenshot to find the option: http://i.imgur.com/6JJcU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6JJcU.jpg I think they enabled it by default a while back to further match Chrome ui.
shii 16y ago
The blue icon to the top left shows that this is Minefield[1] (codename for nightly builds of Firefox). Also, it has a dropdown arrow, showing that this is probably using the Hide Menu Bar[2] addon. The lack of usual menubar/chrome of the browser can be explained by the use of Awesomewm[3] or dwm[4]. Firefox 4+ builds all have the same tabbing as in the screenshot. Also, the bookmarks toolbar has been dragged to the same line as the addressbar and all bookmarks and bookmark folders have no name, thus only showing their favicons, which is the default behavior. Also, the grandparent comment has apparently moved the status bar to the top, on the same level of the tabs. This is new to me, and maybe the default behavior in current nightly builds of Firefox. If I may be so bold, I'd wager this author is using Arch Linux, since awesomewm is very popular with that group of users, and because of the rolling-release cycle nature of Arch, resulting in the latest builds of Firefox. [1]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-menubar-4762/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-menubar-... [3]: http://awesome.naquadah.org/ http://awesome.naquadah.org/ [4]: http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/
- toni 16y ago
  > Also, the grandparent comment has apparently moved the status bar to the top, on the same level of the tabs. This is new to me, and maybe the default behavior in current nightly builds of Firefox. That's not the status bar, it's a couple of toolbar buttons dropped on the right side of the tabbar. Minefield doesn't have a status bar anymore. It's renamed to "Add-on Bar" and is used only for placing addons' icons.
  - shii 16y ago
    Sweet, didn't know about the new change in Minefield. Thanks for the heads up!
    - toni 16y ago
      Firefox 4 (out-of-the-box and on the surface) is going to look more and more like the current Chrome. A new breed of Firefox extensions will surface very soon to hack away a lot of ui stuff back to 3.6 (Namoroka) branch. ("classic" status bar, "classic" tabs, things like that...)
ElbertF 16y ago
Just by moving stuff around. Addons to the tab bar, bookmarks to the address bar. I used an addon to compress the menu and moved it to the tab bar as well. I then removed the empty menu and bookmarks toolbars. I'm using Firefox 4. Oh and having no window decorations helps too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/compact-menu-2/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/compact-menu-...

pc-pro-schools 16y ago

sexy...

kejadlen 16y ago

Me too (http://min.us/mvj29Ld http://min.us/mvj29Ld), mainly using Pentadactyl[1]. [1]: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/