Josh Smith over at notebooks.com has a quick guide to optimizing Firefox for your netbook screen to get the most out of the limited space, with the Meerkat Firefox extension.
With this Firefox extension you gain back about 60 pixels of precious vertical screen real estate, or 10% of the whole vertical space. Quite a lot.
I used to do these sorts of customizations with Firefox but these days I just maximize the screen. How about you?
its better that you used several firefox extension, im using hide caption, hide nav bar, and hide menubar and chromiform theme. those hidden menu can be easily accessed with a keypress.
here i attached the screen shot of my firefox
Nice, I would also recommend using the Classic Compact theme for firefox if you really want to keep everything.
Hi Peter, here is my Setup under Windows7. Due the new bar, you can easily move it to the left, together with google chrome you´ll have the most vertical space on your netbook. The thing i like most in Chrome it the position of tabs on the top, so easy to reach even with a small trackpad.
Greetings,
Felix
dear felix~
even xp could move the bar to the left, top, right and bottom :)
its better to hide the bar itself,
and chrome really optimized the screen a lot
yeah, but since Windows 7 doesn´t put text any longer in the taskbar, there is no reason to keep it at the bottom of the screen. My acer has a bigger resolution (1366x768) than most netbooks, so you have enough space left or right.
I’m a new netbook user. Right now I’m using Acer AOD250. This screen optimization method is really helping me. I have been searching for this stuff. Before this, I used the little fox theme. Quite great, but still I feel I’m just too big for the screen. While the Meerkat just works great on the screen. Thanks
I agree with Felix, since the netbook is using a 16:9 screen, user must get the full advantage from the left and the right side of screen.