There are times when you would like to claim every millimeter of your monitor screen. Especially for those who use their Notebooks and Netbooks to get online. It is more so, when you are surfing / browsing the Internet. You are at a disadvantage with a smaller area of the web site present on your tiny screen.
You have the scroll bars, the menu tool bars. Often you are left with hardly 1/3 of the screen area to see the content. This is when you wish you could hide those menu bars at least temporarily.
Here are few little known tips and tricks to help you reclaim all that screen estate occupied by those bars.
- In your Firefox browser, right click on the Menu tool bar and un-select the Bookmarks toolbar. One less bar and that much more screen space.
- Un-check the Navigation Toolbar and you have some more screen real estate for your visual pleasure.
- Under the View tab you can also un-check the Status bar.
- There are many add-ons and extensions for Firefox that help you hide them. I tried one such and it is ‘Hide Menu bar‘. It is an add-on that helps you to temporarily hide the Menu toolbar. Install it and restart your browser. You will have to use the ‘Alt’ key to activate ‘hide’ and ‘Un-hide’ the Menu toolbar.
Have some tips /tricks/ hacks / to share that would help increase the screen acreage?
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Thanks for the heads up on the Hide Menu Bar add-on. That’s super.
Two other (maybe ‘No duh’) suggestions:
-Dock your Windows task bar on the right edge of your screen rather than at the bottom.
-If you always want your Navigation toolbar visible (I do), be sure to use small icons. View>Toolbars>Customize and check the “Use small icons” box. It doesn’t buy a ton of space, but like you said, every millimeter counts.
Thank you, Julie for those tips. Yes, smaller icons do help. Wonder how I missed mentioning it! Thank you once again
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Yes, toggling F11 in Windows maximizes the Firefox browser. In fact that is one more I use when I am on the move. Thank you for reminding me about it.
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