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

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.
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