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[guide] Firefox for small screens (EEE, Wind, 4211, Aspire One etc)
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09-09-2008 10:51pm#1Ok, I'll be the first to admit that the 1024 x 600 screen on my EEE 1000H is a tad small. However, there are some ways you can get better value for your screen real estate in the Firefox browser, which I assume many of you use.
Before I tell you the addons I've used, let me show you a before and after
Before:
After:
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Please forgive the operating system change! It's the same steps for Windows or Linux.
Now, the addons.
Fission - This puts your loading progress bar in your location bar, in a similar fashion to Safari. In fact, if you want it to have the same appearance as Safari, save this gradient to your computer and input that to the Fission addon. Fission can also display the link of a hovered-over URL in your location bar if you wish, as this function is lost in hiding the normal status bar.
Tiny Menu- See that "Menu" in the top left of the After image? That's all the File, Edit, Tools, Bookmarks etc inside one space saving drop-down menu. I rarely use things in these menus so it's a very handy tool for saving screen space.
After you have installed these addons, there are still several things left to do. First, right click your Firefox's Navigation Bar - the one with the Forward, Back, Home buttons. Click Customise. First thing you want to do is click "Use small icons" in the bottom left. This saves some space and also makes the button layout look much better, in my opinion. Note, if you are using Firefox on Linux, as I am, you can install the Vista buttons, which look much nicer than the GNOME ones, here. After this, you want to merge your bookmarks bar, your location bar, and your navigation bar, all into one.This can be easily done by selecting and dragging each item.
One thing you may have noticed is that I have no Google Search to the right of my Location bar. This is because I discovered a very handy feature in Firefox called "Quick Searches". Or at least, it was called Quick Searches in Firefox 2, but it seems to have dropped the moniker in FF3. Anyway, what a Quick Search basically means is that on [pretty much] any page with a search function, you can access this search function from anywhere through your Location Bar.
How to do this:
Navigate to a page that you frequently use the search function in.
Right click the search field, and click Add A Keyword For This Search..
Fill in the name of the Site you are searching, and then click down to Keyword. What this keyword basically is is the prefix you have to enter in your Location Bar to search that site. For example, if I type
into my Location Bar, and hit Enter, it will search Google for "msi wind", as "g" is my keyword for Google. Similarly I have "y" setup for YouTube, "i" for Google Images, etc.g msi wind
By removing the Google Search box we have freed up some space, so I suggest you put your Bookmarks Toolbar there. You can now right click the area beside your Location Bar and uncheck Navigation Bar and Bookmarks Toolbar.
Your Bookmarks Toolbar is obviously going to take up a lot of space if you have plenty of bookmarks, all of which will reduce the size of your Location Bar. So what I do is, in the Organise Bookmarks window, create a new folder called Bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar, and drag all my bookmarks into that. This will be displayed, like the Menu top left, as a drop down menu when clicked.
And you're finished! 4 Lines - Menu Bar, Navigation Bar, Bookmarks Bar, Status Bar - all consolidated into one.
Hope some of you find this useful
Feedback appreciated.13
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Will be making use of this, thanks!
What other tweaks can be done that benefit user experience on a Wind/EEEpc/etc?
There's a tweak as well to stop firefox from precaching pages, i'll look for it in a sec.
EDIT:
Disable Precaching in Firefox
If you're going to install and use Firefox, it's best to disable precaching. To make itself "faster," Firefox's default behavior is to look at links on a page, go to each of them "behind the scenes" and start caching files. This way, if you click on one of those links, some of the items at that URL (like the page body itself) will already be downlaoded and cached and browsing will be sped up a bit. On a platform with limited drive space and memory like the Eee (especially if you disabled the page file) this can cause a problem, as Firefox will soon start eating up a lot of memory by precaching pages.
To disable this, open up Firefox and in the address bar type about:config and press Enter. Scroll down until you find the line that says "browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers." Double click on that line and change the value from -1 to 0 and click Ok.
Close Firefox and re-open it and precaching will be disabled.
From i64X.com which also has a how to for a custom xp install on your EEEpc0 -
Firefox doesn't have Adblock and Stylish though, does it?
Thank you for the "Thanks".
Obviously meant to say Chrome.. musn't've been concentrating
Oh, another thing, which isn't really related to screen space, but is related to about:config, is disabling animated GIFs. Just type in image.a into the search filter, then change the image.animation_mode value to 0.Four of a kind wrote: »I followed this guide and its a good help. Everything working fine, except when I click on an icon I don't hear the "click" sound. I tested it back on Internet explorer and I hear the click when I press an icon or press return.
What could be the problem with this on firefox 3.0?
I'm not sure if Firefox has a sound pack.. but I always considered the "click" to be an annoyance in IE anyway..0 -
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Considering the times they were posted at, I assume Brian and Baza are one and the same.0 -
AlmightyCushion wrote: »Considering the times they were posted at, I assume Brian and Baza are one and the same.
Yeah but look how long we were left in the dark while the others were enjoying bigger browsing space
Thanks anyway,find this handy on my laptop 15.4" screen0 -
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I can't get the menu or bookmarks bar next to my back/forward arrows, they just wont move when i drap them?
Using firefox 3.0, maybe i should update :rolleyes:
Could you show me a print screen of what your toolbars look like when you right click on an empty space in the location bar's toolbar and click Customize?
It may just be a case of you dragging all the objects onto the wrong toolbar
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All is working fine and looking good now. Thanks 
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