How can I make a small window with no toolbars or other chrome?
I want to create a second Firefox window that is smaller and has no chrome (toolbars, etc), so I can use it for things like pop out videos or reference pages. I could just pop out a window and manually remove all the things, but then this affects my main window next time I restart Firefox.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
- Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator version:0.1.44.16
- Version: 3.6.1.0
Application
- Firefox 22.0a1
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130224 Firefox/22.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/22.0a1/Linux/en-US/
Extensions
- Adblock Plus 2.2.3
- BugzillaJS 3.1.0
- Duplicate Tabs Closer 1.0.0.4
- Easy Google Translate 4.3
- Firefox OS Simulator 2.0
- JavaScript Terminal 2.4
- LeechBlock 0.6.3
- MEGA EXTENSION 1.0.3
- Reddit Enhancement Suite 4.1.2
- Send to Kindle for Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2.56
- TabRenamizer 0.9.7
- Tamper Data 11.0.1
- Textarea Cache 0.8.8
- Troubleshooter 1.0a
- United States English Spellchecker 6.0
- User Agent Switcher 0.7.3
- User-Agent JS Fixer 1.1
- Wiktionary and Google Translate 6.0
- dotjs 1.8
- meta-q-override 0.4
- Firebug 1.11.2 (Inactive)
- FoxyProxy Standard 4.2 (Inactive)
- Mass Password Reset 1.05 (Inactive)
- Stylish 1.3.1 (Inactive)
- Tab Mix Plus 0.4.0.5pre.130223a (Inactive)
- Test Pilot 1.2.2 (Inactive)
- Tree Style Tab 0.14.2012122901 (Inactive)
- feedly 10.2 (Inactive)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
- adapterDeviceID: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
- adapterDrivers:
- adapterRAM:
- adapterVendorID: Intel Open Source Technology Center
- driverDate:
- driverVersion: 3.0 Mesa 9.0.2
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'none', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'cairo', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'none'}
- numAcceleratedWindows: 0
- numAcceleratedWindowsMessage: [u'']
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
- windowLayerManagerType: Basic
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart: False
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 1048576
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction: 0
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.privatebrowsing.dont_prompt_on_enter: True
- browser.startup.homepage: about:blank
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130224031053
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 22.0a1
- browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent: False
- browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent.backup: True
- browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace: False
- browser.tabs.onTop: False
- browser.tabs.tabMinWidth: 50
- browser.tabs.warnOnClose: False
- browser.zoom.full: False
- dom.max_script_run_time: 0
- dom.mozApps.maxLocalId: 1002
- dom.mozApps.runUpdate: False
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- dom.w3c_touch_events.expose: False
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 22.0a1
- media.webaudio.enabled: True
- mousewheel.with_control.action: 1
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1361738437
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- plugin.soname.list: libXt.so:libXext.so
- plugins.click_to_play: True
- privacy.cpd.cache: False
- privacy.cpd.downloads: False
- privacy.cpd.extensions-tabmix: False
- privacy.cpd.formdata: False
- privacy.cpd.history: False
- privacy.cpd.sessions: False
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- security.mixed_content.block_active_content: True
- security.warn_viewing_mixed: False
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Are you using the javascript method window.open() to create the popup? If so, you could try the features parameter.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.open
Note that by default, Firefox preserves some features, but you might be able to let those go by toggling various settings in about:config.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste window_ and pause while the list is filtered
For each of the preferences starting with
dom. disable_window_open_feature.
if the value is true, the script cannot remove that feature. If you toggle it to false by double-clicking, then your window.open() should be able to strip that feature. Unfortunately, this is not site-specific, so other sites also would have permission to omit those features.
Question owner
I'm not trying to do this on a particular page as a developer. I'm trying to do this for any page as a user. I guess I could make a bookmarklet that does this by opening a page in a new window and disabling as many features as I care to.