Firefox addons for small widescreen computers
The screen resolution on my Fujitsu P1620 is 1280×800, which is pretty generous if you’re back in 1999. Webpages tend to be designed for 1280×1024 or higher now, and there is a lot of a scrolling with the smaller screen. Two addons for Firefox that I discovered today take advantage of the wide aspect of the laptop screen.
These are:
- Tiny Menu, which replaces the standard ‘File Edit View …’ menu with a single button that the menu drops down from.
- Tree Style Tab, which moves the screen tabs to the side and builds a hierachial tree of web pages.
I moved the icons from the Navigation toolbar to be beside the menu button, along with the address bar and search bar. I then turned off the navigation toolbar. Tree Style Tab by default collapses the tree to be ‘less confusing’, but I found that it was distracting and I prefer to see all the windows that I have open. The setting for that is in the right-most tab in the addon’s Options.
The screen captures below show the difference that these utilities make:
'Before' using my desktop PC at 1280x800
'After' with the add-ons installed on the Fujitsu.
Every little bit of space helps!
