Recommended Firefox theme for a netbook [closed]

Question

Can anyone recommend a firefox theme suited to a netbook's small screen. I do like how chrome maximises the browser display area, and displays the 'status' info over the page. Yet I'd prefer use firefox for my browsing.

Answer 1

lifehacker ran a story about optimizing the viewing area of firefox on a netbook some days ago: http://lifehacker.com/5360263/maximize-firefox-35s-viewing-area-for-your-netbook.

additionally i use chromifox basic, total rechrome and personal menu to hide the menubar (comes up only at request by pressing 'alt'). result: maximum viewing area :)

Answer 2

I love browsing with the most screen estate available while keeping it friendly.

1. Hide the menu bar, you can always access it through the alt key.
2. Hide the status bar, really, when I surf the whole day I don't miss it.
3. Hide the bookmarks bar, you can access your bookmarks by using the awesome bar.
4. Hide the tab bar when there is only one tab, which is probably most of the time.
5. Everything that is left should be put on one line and should use small icons.
6. You might want to use Firefox is full screen mode, the address is still available through mouse-over. As an alternative, you could hide the caption bar.

An alternative for temporary storing things between your bookmarks is Read It Later, that's the check-mark and the book you see in the right part on my screen-shot. And the other grayed icon you might be wondering about is CoolIris, something you must check out if you like to view a lot of pictures and videos!

Answer 3

What you could do is get rid of all the toolbars that you're not currently needing by hitting up:

View > Toolbars

And unchecking any or all of them.

Then you'll only have the menu and tab bar to deal with. And you can call it a minimalistic theme, but without having to trudge around and download one.

Answer 4

Chromifox Basic should give you the best of both worlds. Chrome's minimal interface is great for netbooks, and Firefox is just great in general :)

Answer 5

http://banshee-project.org/~abock/meerkat/ nice little extention i use, even on non-netbook systems and it saves a hell of a lot of real-estate. Takes a little getting used to since the menu is hidden away all the way to the right tho

Answer 6

Just running firefox fullscreen works well for me on my 1024x576 netbook (Debian/Lenny); no themes required. F11 key toggles it. Moving the mouse to the top of the screen makes the navigation and tabs toolbars temporarily reappear, without having to exit fullscreen.

Answer 7

Though not as attractive, I find LittleFox very good at reclaiming pixels. You'll find that it shrinks most of the standards Firefox controls (status bar, download manager, etc.)

Answer 8

I'm a big fan of the Compact Classic theme.

The Chromifox is also good.

Answer 9

It's not a theme but Tiny Menu is a room saver, it's let you have the firefox menu bar as one button (and a drop down menu), then you can put other fields like back, next, reload, url/awesome bar, search fields, on the same bar.

Then you can also swith to "little icons" int the bar by right-clicking on one icon > Customize > Use Small Icons