Firefox - always show the tabs in fullscreen mode

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Full screen can be more fun if I can always see my tabs (by default you can see when you hover your mouse around that area) and my taskbar.

I know how to make taskbar always appear. Any idea how to do this for the "tab-bar"?

Lazer

Posted 2009-09-19T23:00:49.480

Reputation: 13 841

What would be even more awesome would be to only show the tabs / location bar when they get focused somehow (through keyboard shortcuts). That is basically possible with: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/reviews/add although it also has further side effects.

– Ciro Santilli 新疆改造中心法轮功六四事件 – 2015-11-19T06:08:45.513

Maximize the window? :) – Sasha Chedygov – 2009-09-19T23:05:04.230

no i don't want to see the title bar! – Lazer – 2009-09-19T23:18:15.543

Answers

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  1. Type about:config on Firefox address bar.
  2. Search for browser.fullscreen.autohide
  3. Set it to false

There you go.

A Dwarf

Posted 2009-09-19T23:00:49.480

Reputation: 17 756

This is awesome. Huge productivity gain for me. Thanks! – Pawel – 2018-09-14T08:48:09.467

Perfect !! Made my day. A huge productivity gain for me too. – AnnGM – 2019-12-25T12:41:53.817

Perfect with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prospector-lessChrome-HD/, which auto-hides the navigation bar.

– Nickolay – 2011-06-04T15:20:16.063

4Works great and is ridiculously simple. +1 – Malabarba – 2009-11-16T21:30:55.417

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Full Fullscreen add-on does exactly that.

John T

Posted 2009-09-19T23:00:49.480

Reputation: 149 037