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Firefox minimal space slim skin (userChrome.css) and speed tweaks (user.js)

Firefox

Having a small 1024x768 display I have been looking for a browser that wastes minimal space. Internet Explorer 6 was OK,
having the possibility to stack menues, buttons and bars on one line, but then came Internet Explorer 7 :-(   (screenshots here)

So I started to look at Firefox, and quickly discovered the "userChrome.css" file... And here is the result on Firefox 3:

Firefox 3 screenshot

If you don't like my "one-line" URL-bar dropdown you can change back to "two-line" in the userChrome.css (just change some comments).

If the FF3 bookmarks are not showing in the sidebar (only "Unsorted Bookmarks" at the top) do as follows to expand the bookmarks:
1: Click "Unsorted Bookmarks" (or whatever at the top line), 2: Press "up arrow" (cursor up), 3: Press "right arrow" (cursor right).

The userChrome.css also work with Firefox 2 (screenshot below) and I keep updating it to work with all Firefox 3.x and 3.7 pre-releases.

Firefox 2 screenshot

  • First, if you don't allready use Firefox, follow this link to read info and download the latest version: Firefox download
  • Before you apply this tweak: Change to small icons, move all buttons/menus/fields to the "Menu bar", close the "Navigation bar"
  • Make sure the "Stop" and "Reload" buttons are in that order ("Stop" first, then "Reload)", else they will not merge into one button
  • Then "right-click" this link and "Save link as..." to download the "userChrome.css" for the layout above: userChrome.css
  • Save to: c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile-id>.default\chrome\
  • Then "right-click" this link and "Save link as..." to download the "user.js" file with some speed tweaks: user.js
  • Save to: c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile-id>.default\
  • I have also made a search page that can search with 4 search engines at once. Click on the link to add MultiSearch
  • To run IE dependant code inside Firefox, like in the example above, you also need to install the Coral IE Tab extension
  • If you are tired of all those ads messing up pages and taking bandwidth I recommend the free ads-filter WebWasher
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