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So here is a collection of hacks that I have made in my Firefox browser to optimize the usage of real estate and still have control over my browser - Install the extension to replace your menu with...

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So here is a collection of hacks that I have made in my Firefox browser to optimize the usage of real estate and still have control over my browser

  • Install the TinyMenu extension to replace your menu with a single menu item.

  • Now that you have space in your main menu-bar, move all your navigation toolbar items to the main menu-bar and then hide the navigation bar. Also hide the toolbar. You can do this by right-clicking on one of the toolbars and unchecking all of them!

  • Right click the Main menu bar, choose Customize. Remove the Home and other icons that you hardly use.

  • Remove the ‘Go’ button next to the address bar, remove the magnifying glass, remove Back/Forward/Reload/Stop buttons when disabled as shown here.

  • Install the Searchbar Autosizer extension to make your search bar extremely small and then to expand when you type characters in the search box.

  • Auto-hide the tab bar.

  • Use Fuller screen to remove the menu-bar and status bar when not required!

  • Preview your tabs and search for one using Firefox Showcase extension.

  • Clean up your menu’s using Menu editor extension.

  • Keyboar shortcuts are extremely important to increase your productivity. Reconfigure your shortcuts using Keyconfig extension.

  • Also you can add these new key combinations in Keyconfig to cycle through your tabs:

Move one tab left (Ctrl+Left)

if(gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex == 0)   gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex = gBrowser.mTabContainer.childNodes.length - 1;else   gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(-1);

Move one tab right (Ctrl+Right)

if(gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex == gBrowser.mTabContainer.childNodes.length - 1)   gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex = 0;else   gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(1);

And once you do this, you will definitely want to take backup of your profile. Use FEBE and you are done!