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I've gone back to FF after using Chrome literally form the day it landed. I changed because of vimperator + the ability to theme the header slimmer (i'm on lapt

I've gone back to FF after using Chrome literally form the day it landed. I changed because of vimperator + the ability to theme the header slimmer (i'm on laptop 24/7). But frankly it kind of sucks a bit and I have to jump over to Chrome a lot because almost no videos will play in FF.

tachion 12y ago
Can you elaborate a bit about how you've slimmed Firefox header? I am also working 24/7 on a laptop and I value my screen estate a lot so one of main reasons I dont use Firefox is that its header and tabs consume the largest amount of screen space from Chrome/Safari/Firefox trio...
- ama729 12y ago
  In Vimperator you can do this: :set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs (it will remove tabs and the navigation menu)
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    Yep, I can't stand having them completely gone though.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I modified an existing theme [0] and now it looks like this http://imgur.com/kkXpFHX http://imgur.com/kkXpFHX still not pretty but it stays out of the way so I don't really care at the moment. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for-firefox/?src=cb-dl-users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for...
  - tachion 12y ago
    I dont mean to insult you, but this looks just ugly, and the UI seems to be way too small to be used with comfort. I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs, just like Chrome does it...
    - keenerd 12y ago
      > I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs Don't put the tabs on the top of the screen. You are probably concerned about vertical real estate because you have a 16:9 display. Horizontal bars just don't make sense any more. Install the Tree Style Tab extension. Shove all your tabs into a sidebar. Now your browser has an eye-friendly aspect ratio. Plus you can have more than twenty tabs open at once without reducing the page title to a mere favicon.
    - allegory 12y ago
      Do you look at the mantle piece whilst poking the fire ;) Personally I wouldn't care if it looked ugly as long as it renders stuff right.
    - RubyPinch 12y ago
      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-titlebar-plus-sma/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-... personally I use it along-side https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/ http://i.imgur.com/AvBjeSz.png http://i.imgur.com/AvBjeSz.png is the result on windows 8 with a bit of settings changes
    - wingerlang 12y ago
      Yeah that's what I said "not pretty". But honestly it is so small I don't even look at it anymore. And the UI to be used? I haven't clicked a UI element in any browser manually for years (at least that what it feels like).
blissofbeing 12y ago
Which theme are you using in FF to make the header more compact?
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I replied to the same question in another comment, just trying to avoid repeating.
rikkus 12y ago
Chrome has Vimium, but I haven't used either enough to compare them. On laptop, I sometimes ctrl+shift+b to hide the Chrome toolbar.
- sjy 12y ago
  I use Vimium and I like it, but it's crippled by Chrome's extension model. Extensions aren't really part of the browser, they run in the context of the page you're looking at. This means Vimum's shortcuts don't work on the new tab page or when viewing PDFs, and they're unresponsive when repeatedly changing tabs. I'm trying to switch to Firefox + Pentadactyl, which seems much less hacky, but there are enough differences to make the change difficult.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  I used Vimium for a couple of weeks, 1 minute of using Vimperator made me switch to the whole browser.
ck2 12y ago
Firefox 33 will have native h.264 support so that will solve the video problem. September 2nd will bring 33beta
- stesch 12y ago
  Together with the developer tools this will be a hell of a release. 33 sounds nice.
- wingerlang 12y ago
  That sounds like an event I will be first in line for.

tachion 12y ago

Can you elaborate a bit about how you've slimmed Firefox header? I am also working 24/7 on a laptop and I value my screen estate a lot so one of main reasons I dont use Firefox is that its header and tabs consume the largest amount of screen space from Chrome/Safari/Firefox trio...

ama729 12y ago
In Vimperator you can do this: :set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs (it will remove tabs and the navigation menu)
- wingerlang 12y ago
  Yep, I can't stand having them completely gone though.
wingerlang 12y ago
I modified an existing theme [0] and now it looks like this http://imgur.com/kkXpFHX http://imgur.com/kkXpFHX still not pretty but it stays out of the way so I don't really care at the moment. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for-firefox/?src=cb-dl-users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for...
- tachion 12y ago
  I dont mean to insult you, but this looks just ugly, and the UI seems to be way too small to be used with comfort. I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs, just like Chrome does it...
  - keenerd 12y ago
    > I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs Don't put the tabs on the top of the screen. You are probably concerned about vertical real estate because you have a 16:9 display. Horizontal bars just don't make sense any more. Install the Tree Style Tab extension. Shove all your tabs into a sidebar. Now your browser has an eye-friendly aspect ratio. Plus you can have more than twenty tabs open at once without reducing the page title to a mere favicon.
  - allegory 12y ago
    Do you look at the mantle piece whilst poking the fire ;) Personally I wouldn't care if it looked ugly as long as it renders stuff right.
  - RubyPinch 12y ago
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-titlebar-plus-sma/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-... personally I use it along-side https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/ http://i.imgur.com/AvBjeSz.png http://i.imgur.com/AvBjeSz.png is the result on windows 8 with a bit of settings changes
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    Yeah that's what I said "not pretty". But honestly it is so small I don't even look at it anymore. And the UI to be used? I haven't clicked a UI element in any browser manually for years (at least that what it feels like).

blissofbeing 12y ago

Which theme are you using in FF to make the header more compact?

wingerlang 12y ago
I replied to the same question in another comment, just trying to avoid repeating.

rikkus 12y ago

Chrome has Vimium, but I haven't used either enough to compare them. On laptop, I sometimes ctrl+shift+b to hide the Chrome toolbar.

sjy 12y ago
I use Vimium and I like it, but it's crippled by Chrome's extension model. Extensions aren't really part of the browser, they run in the context of the page you're looking at. This means Vimum's shortcuts don't work on the new tab page or when viewing PDFs, and they're unresponsive when repeatedly changing tabs. I'm trying to switch to Firefox + Pentadactyl, which seems much less hacky, but there are enough differences to make the change difficult.
wingerlang 12y ago
I used Vimium for a couple of weeks, 1 minute of using Vimperator made me switch to the whole browser.

ck2 12y ago

Firefox 33 will have native h.264 support so that will solve the video problem. September 2nd will bring 33beta

stesch 12y ago
Together with the developer tools this will be a hell of a release. 33 sounds nice.
wingerlang 12y ago
That sounds like an event I will be first in line for.