If I only have one window with no tabs, how do I remove the tab label at the top of the window?
Ok, I open a window to my home page. At the top left of the window I have the Firefox icon and next to it the name of the page I'm on. Below that is the menu bar which I use enough to leave it there. And now below that, with no other tabs open, is a tab lable/tab strip/whatever with the Firefox icon and next to it the name of the page I'm on. Below that is the url/address bar which also is usually showing the name of the page I'm on.
I like a clean screen with as little clutter as possible. I usually know what page/window I'm on because I'm the one who got me there. I don't need an additional tab strip for a window that has no tabs open taking up more space and telling me what I already know.
If I could drop the Firefox icon wasting that entire top portion of my screen that would be great, but I'm sure that isn't an option.
If I could put that menu bar on the same line as the address bar I'd be in efficiently used space heaven! But I'm also pretty sure that's not going to happen either.
This new tab strip/tab label though, I know doesn't need to be there because it never was before until I opened a new tab and then logically would have a use for the tabs.
But, since I don't like it and I want it gone, I'm presuming that means that it's new because some person or persons thought redundancy is fun and there is no option to remove it either.
Can anyone educate me in any areas where my ignorance is causing me to suffer here? Give me back my inch at the top of my screen and I promise to not ask for a mile!
Thanks to anyone who can/will assist me. Much Peace
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Did you try unchecking the "Always show the Tab bar" checkbox in the Tab options? See Tab preferences and settings.
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Did you try unchecking the "Always show the Tab bar" checkbox in the Tab options? See Tab preferences and settings.
Note that Firefox 22 is the last Firefox version that has this check-box to hide the tab bar with only one tab open (it is gone in Firefox 23 beta).
Thank you so much Jscher! That is exactly what I needed to do. Downloading the most recent version, or uninstalling an unwanted toolbar reconfigured my is what got the settings switched, and I'm happy to say that with your help I'm back to having nothing to complain about!
Thanks for your wisdom.
I did have to uncheck the Menu Bar option to be able to click on the Firefox drop down menu tab to get to Options, easy enough to do once I figured I should try doing that. Otherwise I had no response to clicking the Firefox icon at the top of the screen.
Again, thank you for solving my problem so quickly.
Thanks for that info Cor-el. I'll stick with 22 and avoid beta since I can cause my own bugs to manifest! Good to know I won't have this issue again, since I would likely be struggling to remember how to correct it by that time.
Thanks much.
Okay, so blocking the tab-bar easy way doesn't work anymore: is there *any* way to get the tab-bar away? It's simply taking space ...
Hi kuopiofi, is this in Firefox 23? I think the browser.tabs.autoHide has been removed from preferences, so the solution most likely would involve an extension. There are many tab-related extensions, but I don't know which include hiding the tab bar when there is only one tab.
(While it is easy for a style rule to completely hide the tab bar, that's not useful when there are multiple tabs. The conditional hiding in Firefox 22 and earlier was accomplished by setting collapsed="true" on the bar when there was only one tab, and without that cue, it's hard to create a conditional style rule.)
With Firefox 23 and TabMixPlus 0.4.1.0 installed, an additional box is added to the Tabs options panel that allows 3 options for the tab bar:
- One is to Always hide the tab bar. I do not know whether future versions of TabMixPlus will remove that option. I have tested in Firefox 23 and it is possible to completely hide the tab bar regardless of the number of tabs open.
Other options added in the additional box with TabMixPlus 0.4.1.0 are:
- Never
- When I have only one tab
Another extension for suppressing a lone tab was suggested in this thread: I really hate that version 23.0 forces me to have the Tab Strip. I want to remove it. I tried installing version 22 from the archive, but it didn't work.