I just learned/found a couple of things tonight that are pretty cool, so I thought I'd share. Some of this stuff will help you folks using a monitor at low res (like 1280x1024 or lower). I think all of it would benefit folks using bigger monitors and higher res.
Two of the changes (the add-ons) actually come from the fact that pretty much all pages on the internet are vertically (portrait) oriented, but all monitors are horizontally (landscape) oriented, especially when pretty much all monitors these days are "widescreen" (don't even get me started on why that's bad). So, you page data is vertical, but at the top of firefox, there are 4 "lines" of stuff (toolbars) commonly displayed eating up the space used to display web pages with maybe a fifth line if you have the status bar displayed (I always do). To top it all off, because of the widescreen monitor, you probably have some free space on the side of your screen that's mostly unused. Well, you can move some stuff around and make better use of some of your space.
1 Firefox's full screen mode rocks. It goes edge to edge on your monitor and you can only see the webpage. All of the buttons, menus, and boarders are gone. The only thing that you can still see is the scroll bar. Run your mouse to the top of the page and
some of the other stuff comes back.
2 If you don't like or want to use full screen, but you think it would be nice to get rid of one of the lines at the top of the program, you can install an add-on called
Tiny Menu
With Tiny menu, you can basically turn all of the menus (File, edit, view...) into one menu and move it to the same line as the forward and backwards buttons.
3 If you use tabs (and why wouldn't you, they're awesome), they take up another line across the top of your "page". Not only that, but if you end up with several tabs open, you may not be able to see them all without scrolling through them. If you could use an inch down the side of your screen, you could probably see 30 or more tabs all at once without having to scroll. Well, with
another Firefox add-on, tab kit,, you can put the tab bar down the side, either side, or at the bottom if you want, plus a ton of other tweaks (like custom colors for certain tabs) that aren't possible otherwise.
Hopefully some of you find at least some of this info useful.
If you have any of your own favorite add-ons or mods for Firefox, post them.