Removing the top most title bar in firefox browser
I love Firefox because its very open source and is one of the best browsers in the world. But I do not understand why the topmost tile bar in Firefox is constantly killing a particular amount of vertical height in my screen. I have posted an image that showcases this title bar in my second reply to this post.
Please note this problem does not appear in Firefox for windows. They have solved this issue ( I sincerely hope it is fair to call this an issue). I understand that this is a small amount of vertical space but there are many times during a day even that little bit of lost vertical space really matters. I thank Firefox for making the windows version free of this issue and I would like to make this an opportunity to propose to the Linux development team to kindly consider this issue. The way I see it, that top most title bar does not serve a purpose. Usually the tab already contains the "title" of a webpage embedded. moreover chrome, opera too does not have this title bar although they used to have it.
Amalinda.
Modified by coolperson1
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Please find the image below. I had missed the image earlier.
I don't have Linux handy to test with. If you turn off the display of the title in the top bar, does Firefox collapse the bar or does it display blank? There should be a Title Bar button in the lower left of the Customize tab. See: Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.
Im sorry that option is not available on the linux version. Thanks for your concern. I think there might be a requirement for developers to know about this problem.
When I look at the code, there is a global switch defined in how Firefox is built that determines whether the button is visible:
#ifdef CAN_DRAW_IN_TITLEBAR
<button id="customization-titlebar-visibility-button" class="customizationmode-button"
label="&customizeMode.titlebar;" type="checkbox"
#NB: because oncommand fires after click, by the time we've fired, the checkbox binding
# will already have switched the button's state, so this is correct:
oncommand="gCustomizeMode.toggleTitlebar(this.hasAttribute('checked'))"/>
#endif
Another file sets CAN_DRAW_IN_TITLEBAR for windows and cocoa (I think that is Mac) but not gtk. So this is what would need to change to reveal the button and make the command work.
Does it make any difference if you flip this preference:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste tabs and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar preference to switch it to true
Thank you for your response jscher2000.
I am wondering if you can inform about this matter to the developer community. Do you think its worth informing?
You can file a bug requesting a change. As a Windows user, and a support volunteer with no special expertise in Linux issues, it's not very useful for me to pass it on second hand...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
I do think it's worth mentioning that other browsers have changed how they do it, and also mention which distribution you're using in case it's something distribution-specific.