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Firefox tips
Rose Vines' favourite tips for making the most of Firefox and Thunderbird

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Want more surfing space and less clutter? One way to achieve that is to hide some of your toolbars: In Firefox, click View —> Toolbars and click a toolbar to remove the tick beside it.

But what if you want to keep all your toolbars while maximising your surfing window? Firefox provides a way.

Take a look at the menu bar at the top of the window. There's a lot of empty real estate between the Help menu and the Firefox logo — known as the throbber — on the right. Here's how you can reclaim that space:

1. Click View —> Toolbars —> Customize to open Firefox's non-standard-looking toolbar palette.
2. Notice in the Menu bar of the main Firefox screen that there's an outlined rectangle between the Help menu and the throbber. It's known as a flexible space. Click-and-drag that flexible space from the Menu bar into the toolbar palette. When you do so, the throbber will jump leftwards to cuddle up near the Help menu.
3. Drag the Bookmarks Toolbar Items in the main window onto the Menu bar, placing it between the Help menu and the throbber, then click Done in the toolbar palette box.
4. Click View —> Toolbars and click to remove the tick beside Bookmarks Toolbar. This closes the now-empty bookmarks toolbar.