In the process of streamlining the developer versions and regular versions of Firefox, Mozilla has decided to bifurcate them in 4 channels and release them often in an organized pattern. Read more…
firefox 4
Phew! After a seemingly never ending development cycle, a dozen beta releases, 2 RC versions and a lot of bug fixes, Mozilla has unveiled the final version of Firefox 4 on March 22, as promised. Read more…
The guys at Mozilla never sleep. The machine seems to chug on and on to develop and release iterations after another. With Firefox 4 RC barely out Read more…
After a really long development cycle, Firefox 4 is ready to be unveiled. Mozilla has released the RC1 version aimed Read more…
The next couple of weeks are going to be very exciting as two strong browsers are entering the warfield in their latest and most powerful avatars yet – The Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 Release Candidate.
Important: If you are using Firefox 4 Beta 9+, don’t follow this tutorial because you already have this feature built-in. The smart guys at Mozilla have used our method to permanently include this feature into Firefox 4 Beta 9+ ;).
This is the latest solution to the original hack to remove Firefox 4′s title bar. The problem with the original hack was that it was having some problems with beta version 7 and upwards. Also, the addon-bar has been introduced in Beta 7 which is not so pleasant looking. So I modified the original userChrome.css to include the fixes.
Here’s what Firefox 4 Beta 7+ looks like after using the new and improved userChrome.css:
Features and fixes:
- Neat relocation of tab-bar and removal of title bar.
- Engraved effect on inactive tab labels. (This effect was present in initial betas but was removed in the latest one. I liked it so I added it back ;)
- In the original hack, the tabs would overlap window controls in FF4B7+. In this new userChrome.css, I’ve fixed the problem.
- The menu bar is moved to the top. It can be viewed by pressing ‘Alt’ as usual.
- The addon bar’s background is made ‘light-blue’ to complement with the overall theme.
How to:
1) First, right-click beside the URL bar (Address bar) and click ‘Customize…‘. Now drag the ‘Group Tabs’ icon to beside the URL bar.
2) Now download this userChrome.css file (Right click > Save Link As…).
3) Place the file into this folder:
[Windows Vista/7] C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\chrome
[Windows XP] C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\chrome\
4) Restart Firefox 4.
Do note that, you need to have ‘Tabs on Top’ enabled for this to take effect. If you find any problems, do mention it in the comments. If you like this post, please share it.
It’s not much of a happy news for Firefox fans that Mozilla has decided to remove atleast one (or more) of the promised features from the final version of Firefox 4 scheduled to be released by the end of this year.
Mozilla developers said that in order to meet the deadline, some features planned for Firefox 4 need to be removed. These features include the new account manager which was introduced in April this year, the Inspector, the web-console and some misc features for the Windows platform. However, things may change by a few degrees here or there as the final feature freeze is due next week, September 10 to be precise.
On a happier note, Google Chrome turned 2 today and for a browser that young, it’s ground breaking to evolve to a 17% foot print in market share [Aug 2010]. Moreover, Google released version 6 of the browser today with security fixes and performance boosts. Download Google Chrome 6 now!
