Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

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Caydr
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Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

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A recent topic wherein the OP posted a screenshot of his nubbish Firefox has motivated me to share my collection of firefox addons to reduce the amount of space that gets wasted.

AutoHideStatusbar: hides the status bar unless you're hovering over a link or otherwise there's something you actually need to see, similar to Chrome's behavior.

Fission: Shows page loading progress in the address bar, making the status bar unneeded most of the time.

Download Statusbar: reduces the necessity of having the download window open by showing your downloads in the status bar.

Compact Menu 2: Hides the File, Edit, View, etc, adds a button that un-hides them temporarily.

Smart Stop/Reload: Replaces the reload/stop buttons with one that does both depending on what state the page you're looking at is in. In rare circumstances you'll wish you had both, but for me it's not really a big deal very often.

Undo Closed Tabs Button: Allows you to quickly re-open the last tab you closed instead of going into the menu.

Finally, once you have all those, go into customize, pick small icons, and rearrange your icons so that your screen looks more like this:
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Why not just use Chrome, you ask? No adblock yet.
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Just use Opera
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No. Tried it once a couple years ago, many web sites didn't work with it. Regardless of how good or bad something is, if it's the Macintosh of browsers, it's not worth the trouble. If I was going to switch to a different browser, it would be Chrome, and only after it has extension support.
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chrome's rendering library is actually the same one used in osx's browser :P
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you've done all this to add 100px to your viewing area

yeah no
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ctrl+ shift + t
or cmd + shift + t

This will restore the last closed tab, repeat to go further back in history. Otherwise the smart stop reload extension should be nice, I have a lot of little icons in ym status bar though like firebug and gmail notifier
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What you guys need is Mouse Gestures Redox add-on. This thing is amazing if you use proper mouse of course, but you probably do, since you play spring.

I use gestures for almost everything. The only time I need menu is for bookmarks, couse I've got only 4 bound to L shaped gestures.
If I drag line down I close tab, if there's no tab it closes firefox. Line up opens last closed tab. Line right opens new tab. There's also roker feature, that switches tabs when you hold mouse button and use scroll wheel and many more. 2 thumb buttons on mouse are used for back/forward by default.
Oh, and you can draw line over links and then make closing shape, which makes firefox open all of the link you drew over.

It won't save you any screen space, but it makes me fly over the internets.
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Wisse wrote:What you guys need is Mouse Gestures Redox add-on. This thing is amazing if you use proper mouse of course, but you probably do, since you play spring.

I use gestures for almost everything. The only time I need menu is for bookmarks, couse I've got only 4 bound to L shaped gestures.
If I drag line down I close tab, if there's no tab it closes firefox. Line up opens last closed tab. Line right opens new tab. There's also roker feature, that switches tabs when you hold mouse button and use scroll wheel and many more. 2 thumb buttons on mouse are used for back/forward by default.
Oh, and you can draw line over links and then make closing shape, which makes firefox open all of the link you drew over.

It won't save you any screen space, but it makes me fly over the internets.
So, basically what you're saying is...

Just use Opera.
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No matter how good Opera is, eventually you'll run into a case where you say "boy, I wish I had an extension for that". Then you go back to Firefox.

Same goes for Chrome.

That being said, Firefox completely screwed the pooch with crashiness and memory-hoarding for a while, so I can't really blame people for deciding that extensions aren't worth the cost.
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Just open Firefox and press F11 and that's it. Plenty of screen space with just one key press...
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Pxtl wrote:No matter how good Opera is, eventually you'll run into a case where you say "boy, I wish I had an extension for that". Then you go back to Firefox.
+1000

I have even more extensions than I do spring widgets. I actually have area mex, unit retreat and even commander nametags firefox addons. They don't do much in firefox but I have them.
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Thx, Cadyr, Extension is golden
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Re: Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

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Wow, that saves virtually nothing.
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Just use Opera.
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Re: Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

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Some guy said it saved 100 px. On a netbook's 1024x600 screen, that's a sixth of the screen saved. And since you claim to be using a netbook, it is a huge difference.
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There is no way with how the menus are constructed, particularly with rounded corners, you're saving me one hundred pixels. One horizontal line would be around 1000 pixels, even given rounding. One vertical would give me roughly 540 pixels, considering top and bottom elements.

100 pixels is a functionally negligible amount in this context, and not one possibly granted by your changes. Ralphie said that dismissively, and rightfully so.

I'm using Windows on a netbook. I'll optimize my browser more when I'm running on a decent OS. Thanks, though.

Addendum: Two of the addons, the first two, were useful, and do grant me 14140 more pixels of viewspace, out of my total of 614400.
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Re: Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

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I'm just posting up some of the more helpful addons for saving screen space, but I'm not going to hold your hand while you figure out how to get everything to work as good as possible.

Overkill, Flozi:
http://lifehacker.com/5352195/browser-s ... hallengers
Opera fails at everything and uses more system resources than Firefox while also being slower.
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Dont forget to use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9256 as it makes use of top caption line. I moved File etc menus and close mininimize butons there - very usefull
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increase your epenis with screen space! :shock:
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Re: Increase your screen space with Firefox extensions

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just press F11 imo :?
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