5 Ways to Optimize Firefox for Small Screens
2) Consolidate your menus. The Tiny Menu extension for Firefox puts all the standard Firefox menu bar items (File, Edit, View, Tools, etc.) into one single master drop down menu. After installing this extension, you'll be able to fit your menu, navigation buttons, url bar, and search box all on one toolbar! Just right click on a blank space in the Firefox navigation bar, and select "customize toolbars" from the menu. From there you can drag-and-drop menu items on just one toolbar.
3) Hide the status bar. Installing the AutoHideStatusbar will cause the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window to hide automatically unless you rest your mouse on the bottom of the screen. This frees up quite a bit space, but still allows use of the status bar without loss of functionality. You can also have it unhide when loading a webpage or mousing over a link.
4) Move status bar functions to the URL bar. The Fission extension for Firefox combines the progress bar and URL bar, similar to the the Safari browser. In addition, you can configure Fission to show link locations on mouseover in the URL bar as well. If you install this Firefox extension along with AutoHideStatusbar, you'll probably never have to use the status bar again.
5) Use smart zooming on webpages. The DefaultFullZoom Level extension for Firefox provides toolbar buttons for the page and text zoom features in Firefox 3.0. In addition, it provides a neat "fit-to-window" feature, which will automatically resize and zoom a website to fit the width of your Firefox window. You can use this to minimize sidescrolling on many websites, and the best part is that DefaultZoomLevel remembers your zoom preferences for each website you visit.
There you go! 5 ways to optimize your Firefox for small screens. Good luck, and enjoy!
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