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How to hide a toolbar in Firefox
By maurizio | May 14, 2007
If you have too many toolbars in Firefox and want to hide some, there is an easy trick that let you have all your toolbars at your hand without having half of the screen occupied by them.
If you don’t have any toolbar installed is time to install some. On this example I have Google,StumbleUpon and Web Developers toolbars.
Google’s toolbar should be left visibile all times to be able to use it for searches and for our other toolbars. What we have to do is have a button for every toolbar we want to hide. Button are already created by the toolbars, you just need to put them somewhere. To do that you need to right click on an empty space of a toolbar. You could also click just below the blank space where you type urls:
You should see a menu like the one pictured below:
Click on Customize and you will see a window like the screenshot here:
Now you need to find the button that calls the toolbar you want to hide. On my Example I want to hide Web Developers and StumbleUpon toolbars.
Once you’ve found them, you have to drag them on the bar you left there (Google’s). You could also add some space between the two buttons:
When you’ve finished, just press done and you will have something like this:
Done :-)
Please note that I’ve saved this post under Content Creation. What you should also learn from this post is how to create content. If you don’t have any idea on what to write, just ask your friends what they do not understand and then get some information together and start a new post. Friends are the best resource for inspiration. Especially if they then read your blog.
:)
This blog is also starting to become a Firefox only Blog. I get 10-20 hits every day for my post about Firefox Beep on Search and how to make firefox faster. I should write about it more maybe.. :-)
Topics: Content Creation | 8 Comments »
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May 15th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Okay, I’m seriously gonna do this.
Thanks for writing this one, Maurizio.
Ciao!
Paula
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 am
Hi, Paula.
Don’t ask me why, but Akismet thought that your comment was spam :(
June 26th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Your solution is good for “official” toolbar, what about `user added toolbar` ? (see on `Customize Toolbar` windows)
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December 8th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I tried that and none tool bar vanished, now I have to figure out how to get it back.
Pressed another and it wanted to open all book marks.
I need more help. i want to see more of my screen and not just browser tool bars.
December 8th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
I tried that and one tool bar vanished, now I have to figure out how to get it back.
Right clicked another toolbar and it wanted to open all bookmarks.
I need more help. i want to see more of my screen and not just browser tool bars.
December 9th, 2010 at 9:03 am
If you click on any other toolbar, you should see the list of other available toolbars. Select the one that you are missing.
December 23rd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
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