How to install
- Install Stylish plus Kallout for Firefox (or from here for just Stylish or for other Mozilla apps). If you have Stylish already, make sure you have JavaScript enabled.
- You need Firefox with Stylish to use this style. Get Firefox, then install Stylish plus Kallout (or just Stylish), then come back here to install this style.
This is basically the same as Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height (9349), except that the location bar text is larger (110%) than the original, so can it be seen better during presentations. While the font is even larger than normal there is still a huge removal of wasted space from the Navigation/Location Bar.
The idea here is to use minimum real estate used for the Navigation Toolbar, and other toolbars, so that you have more screen space to use your browser for it's intended purpose of looking at web pages not space hogging graphics. This style uses roughly about 1/3 of the height of the original Navigation Toolbar and is the part shown within the red borders. The rest of the styling comes from my other styles.
This is one of several styles to minimize size of toolbars, look for other styles under my name, David McRitchie, at the top that include "Minimal" in their style names. Currently there is some overlap in toolbars, since I've not learned how to reduce the size of the selection bubbles to be within the toolbars height, but it is quite usable.
I removed the search bar from the navigation bar to place it to the right of the menu bar (view, toolbars, customize), and also chose small icons at the bottom of customize, so that both the location bar and the search bar have more working space. The search bar css code is commented out in this style, and is included with my Menu and Search bar style.
More information on styles that I use can be found on my Tabs page http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/tabs.htm#userstyles
and in http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dmcritchie
To properly view the screenshots either right-click on an image then use "View Image" or install userstyles.org -downsize screenshots to fit window (12373) so that you can see images within userstyles.org in their actual image size. The pictures are taken from screen shots with the window at 1/2 width so the search bar, and location bar are both wider by about 1/2 screen width providing very wide visible entry areas. Also notice that the personal toolbar is almost entirely folders and removal of the folder icons with Bookmarks Toolbar Blue/Folders, Red/Bookmarks (9091) provides about twice the space for folders.
Modification to use with Fx2 (you really should be using Fx3 by now)
change the two negative bottom margins to 0 (third parameter on margin:)
I keep the Back & Forward buttons to see if there is anything in either direction.
I normally use the BACK / FORWARD mouse button or keyboard shortcuts.
The following change removes the dropdown on the unified-back-forward button
#back-forward-dropmarker{display:none!important} /* use Right-click to view dropdown */
Updates: since 2008-09-30
2009-01-05 adj Home, remove back-forward-dropmarker right-click to display menu (picture not updated)
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