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Have the Firefox tab bar auto hide
Tags: Tab-based web browsing is an experience we are all likely familiar with and likely can’t live without, at least I can’t. The highly useful feature unfortunately takes up a fair bit of screen real estate in the user interface. This problem is magnified with the proliferation of netbooks whom many use as a secondary computer used almost exclusively for Internet browsing – their small screen leaves you clamoring for extra pixels wherever possible. Sure, in Firefox, you can just disable the tab bar but that seems like an awfully large concession to make. Wouldn’t it be easier to just have the tab bar hidden from the UI when not needed?
Hide Tabbar is a Firefox extension that brings some display flexibility to the tab bar. Once installed, Hide Tabbar can be configured to hide the tabs with a definable keyboard shortcut – CTRL+F11 by default or, even better, auto hide the tabs after a user defined time period. If you’ve opted for the auto hide feature you should know that the tabs will reappear when you hover your mouse over their normal location within the interface – not unlike the Windows taskbar when it’s configured to auto hide.
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