Latest Firefox nightly adds tab bar-cramping customization
Firefox 3.7's user interface has already undergone a number of changes, from the new theme to the addition of the tab-on-top option. In last night's build, Mozilla has added more customization options to the Firefox toolbars.
You can now cram everything into your tab toolbar. Right-click and choose customize, and you're now able to drag-and-drop navigation buttons, the address bar and search ...
So this might not seem obvious to everyone, but as a guy in the trenches I'm not at all surprised by the statement Ars Technica quoted this morning from a new Microsoft whitepaper:
"Add-ons cause most browser crashes, accounting for over 70 percent of Internet Explorer 8's crashes. Slowdowns in Internet Explorer 8 are very often caused by add-ons-especially when you open a new browser window or ...
Browser toolbars. Yahoo!, Google, StumbleUpon, IE7pro. They can make your life easier. But they can also take up an awful lot of screen real estate and eat a few MB of RAM here and there while they're at it. Sure, you could go and uninstall your toolbars one by one, but what if you can't even remember which toolbars you've installed? ToolbarCop is an executable (ie: no installation required) ...
Exactly as its name implies, the Tiny Menu extension allows you to compress your entire Firefox menu bar into one item. And, thanks to a recent update, that item is now even smaller. Setting up Tiny Menu isn't entirely intuitive, so I'll outline the steps to save you a bit of time:
Download and install Tiny Menu (don't forget to restart Firefox)
Click your 'new' menu (the M) and then ...





