Make Firefox 4's Tab Bar Take Up Less Space

[Guest]

Recover some vertical space for your widescreen browsing experience.

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[Bolbi]

Hah! Before reading this article, I was already wondering why the new menu button wasn't on the tab bar. Glad Tom's posted this!

 

[Regulas]

I like it, especially more helpful with the wider screens we use now. I miss my 1024 x768 and such format.

 

[LordConrad]

I'm glad Firefox 4 still allows me to disable Tabs altogether, I find them highly annoying.

 

[masterjaw]

Not sure about this but I've just installed Firefox 4 beta and it already looked like that in your screenshot.

 

[haunted one]

Haven't experimented much but so far, closing one window of firefox has closed ALL firefox windows. And why did they place the close icon into a menu?

 

[shin0bi272]

Im glad youre happy with your tabs and multi-purpose button... now try minimizing your browser...

 

[lifelesspoet]

i liked it better the first time, when it was called chrome.

 

[Poisoner]

If its not broke, don't fix it.

 

[TheCapulet]

I prefer opera, where I can have full preview tabs that take up absurd amounts of screen real estate.

 

[Supertrek32]

I've been using this hack for a while now. The main issue with it is that it completely messes up on pages that resize themselves. It looks really ugly when that happens.

 

[cjl]

I never understood the point of this kind of minimalism. I have 1200 pixels of vertical space. I prefer to have a real set of menus and control buttons up there in addition to a full width tab bar.

 

[Guest]

Keep in mind that the option to `Always show the tab bar` needs to be checked. Otherwise, the orange Firefox menu button will overlay the navigation bar if you are only viewing one page, and you won't be able to click on it until another tab is opened.

Also, here is a link to CSS code that, in addition to pushing the tab bar up, makes the orange menu button look much nicer:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/06/remove-stuck-firefox-4-orange-menu-button-css/

 

[captaincharisma]

looks too much like opera

 

[jryan388]

Chrome pwns all, end of story.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]LordConrad[/nom]I'm glad Firefox 4 still allows me to disable Tabs altogether, I find them highly annoying.[/citation]

are you high? tabs are cool if you really know how to take advantage of them, you must be very old or very stupid

 

[eddieroolz]

It's a nice hack, but it becomes really difficult to move the window around after this since only that tiny sliver is actual window now.

 

[silverblue]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]are you high? tabs are cool if you really know how to take advantage of them, you must be very old or very stupid[/citation]

Everyone's allowed their opinion.

 

[maigo]

this is why wide screen is stupid. great for movies, but no webpages aren 1600 wide

 

[AuonH]

If you are after real estate isn't the best option the full screen mode (F11) plus auto hiding tabs, that way you can have the whole screen for the web page and still use tabs...