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.
The idea here is to use minimum real estate used for the Menu 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 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.
I include the search bar to the right of the menu bar, so that both the location bar and the search bar have more working space. Use customize to move search box up to menu bar.
This style only affects the menu bar see other styles for the other toolbars.
Right click on a picture, then view image to see it as a full size image.
The biggest chuck of wasted space is recovered from the Navigation/Location bar using either
Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height (9349) or Navigation/Location Bar Presentation Height (DM*) (10881).
For best viewing of the Before and After pictures install my userstyles.org -downsize screenshots to fit window (12373), so you will be viewing actual sizes if your window is at least 800px wide. The actual images are 707px x 152px and 710px x 90px as seen in properties so the reduction in height is about 40% with the menu bar changes along with my other minimal styles.
Notes: The "Launchy" toolbar button has since been fixed in Launchy button remove space wasting drop-down(DM*) (13115).
Updates: since 2008-08-04
2008-11-26 Adjustments to Menu Bar to raise titles, and most buttons to better keep up with Fx updates.
2008-12-17 Move menu bar titles closer together (change not shown in pictures), based on style-10992
2018-12-20 Adjustments to specialized menu/count buttons from style- 4142
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