userstyles.org - Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height

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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 toolbar. The red outline is the Navigation Toolbar itself and is the most wasteful of the toolbars.

This is one of several styles to minimize size of toolbars, look for other styles under my name, David McRitchie, 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.

(Assuming Firefox Chrome Opera Internet Explorer Other )

I removed the search bar from the navigation bar to place it to the right of the menu bar, 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. Remember to choose small ions at the bottom of the customization dialog in your View, Toolbars, Customize for this style and for variations of this style.

You can remove the space wasting drop-down on the Launchy icon (at the far right) with Launchy button remove space wasting drop-down(DM*) (13115).

Variations of this style: for a larger size for normal use or particularly if giving a presentation a couple of larger versions that still save a lot of space over the original Firefox location bar see Navigation/Location Bar Presentation Height (DM*) (10881), and Navigation/Location Bar BIG Presentation Height (18864).

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 -- Styles that affect the Toolbars can be best seen in http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/toolbars.htm

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 unless they must be reduced to fit in the window.

All of the style effects show in the After screenshot are from:
* Color Toolbar(s) to identify profile (DM*) (9514, not shown on this page)
* Menu and SearchBar Minimal Height (DM*) (9350)
* Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height (9349 from this page)
* Launchy button remove space wasting drop-down(DM*)(13115, not yet shown on this page)
* Bookmarks Toolbar Blue/Folders, Red/Bookmarks (9091)
* Tabs Bar Minimal Size (9043)
* Tab Color Underscoring active/read/unread (Fx3.6 ) (24828)

Updates: since 2008-08-04
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