Auto Hide Sidebar

Auto Hide Sidebar
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Last updated Sep 20 2008
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Hides the Sidebar until the mouse contacts the left edge of the screen where it's hidden. Need to establish the width of your present Sidebar by using DOM Inspector. In the DOM location bar enter chrome://browser/content/browser.xul and click on inspect. Ignore the Session Manager by closing it (if it pops up). Click on window(plus sign) > stack(plus sign) > hbox(plus sign) > vbox and in the right panel select Object - DOM Node, there you will find the width of the sidebar. Subtract 1 from that number and enter that value as a negative number in place of the -215 in userChrome.css for #sidebar-box { margin-left: Removes vertical separator, search: label, search input box, closebutton, title text, scrollbar (scrollable with mousewheel) and adds 3D border. Also removes the Bookmarks or History item from the View > Sidebar > Menu popup, for which ever view is active. Tip: For access to widen the Sidebar, grab it from the 5px area just below the bottom toolbar (at the top left corner of the screen while in Fullscreen mode). See after screenshot.
**Updated to restore right click context menu**

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coredump said on Oct 19 2007

Perfect! After commenting out the part that hides the bookmark search box, I'm lovin' it. Thank you very, very much. *****

zoddic said on Jul 14 2007

Great one :) Only problem is that the context menu (right click menu) seems to dissapear.. anyway I can live with that. Thanks! ****

thesmallone101 said on Jun 11 2007

i am really confused at how you do this....... mind explaining anyone? ****

hughman said on Mar 18 2007

I like it!! *****

Jhon said on Feb 14 2007

Thanks!!! Very usefull! ****

Weishun said on Jan 12 2007

Very nice. 8-þ *****

theaulddubliner said on Jan 11 2007

nice stuff

I wonder if there is anyway to have the sidebar overlayed on the browser rather than appended to the edge [with some transparency of course :) ] ****

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