Maximize Your Firefox Real Estate

A while back, Lifehacker wrote a great article on how to maximize the default screen real estate used by Firefox. I thought this was worth mentioning again as I have been coming across a fair amount of people who have their Firefox address and toolbar so cluttered that it amazes me that one can read the web at all. In one instance, a guy sent me a screenshot of his browser where half of the screen was toolbars and bookmarks. Oy Vey! Here is a capture of my Firefox toolbar (with a few open tabs):

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With the context of Lifehacker article (mentioned above) in mind, here is what I have done:

1. Added only the essential icons (i.e. back, forward, refresh, new tab, etc). to the Navigation Toolbar.
2. Added the address bar to and dropped the search bar (who uses this anyway) from the Navigation Toolbar.
3. Put only my most used bookmarks on the Bookmarks Toolbar and grouped related bookmarks into folders.
4. The last row is my web tabs which can grow and shrink depending on how much content I am reading, of course.

That is all that is needed IMO. Find what works for you and reclaim your screen real estate.

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