Browsing space is important; especially for smaller netbook PCs out there. So, why have the menu bar, bookmark bar and navigation bar shown if you don’t need them? The Hide GUI bars extension for Firefox will let you hide all three, or bring them back with one single keyboard combination.
Once the Hide GUI bars add-on is installed, customizing it to fit your needs is pretty self explanatory. In the options you can choose which toolbars get hidden:
- Menu Bar
- Navigation Bar
- Tab Bar
- Bookmarks Bar
- Status Bar
Next, you just choose the keyboard combination you wish to use to hide or show all the Firefox toolbars.
How to Hide Toolbars Manually in Firefox
Can you do this without the use of the Hide GUI bars add-on? Yes, but it is a little more complicated. One of the new features in Firefox 3.6 is the ability to hide the menu bar. The navigation bar and bookmarks bar were already hide-able before this most recent release. To hide them, just right-click one of the toolbars, and uncheck the one you wish to hide:
You can pick up the Hide GUI bars add-on for Firefox on the Firefox add-ons web site.
