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Option to include tab bar autohide

Open dd871 opened this issue 9 years ago • 7 comments

Love your extension and find it very useful. As I am looking to maximize screen estate without losing ability to see the windows tray/task list, I would personally find it very useful if there would be an option to include the tab bar in the autohide. this would be very similar to the fullscreen behaviour, but keeps the things I need (clock on systray, other running tasks, etc.) still accessible.

I rarely have a lot of tabs open and even if do, I dont switch between them often so I dont need them to be displayed all the time.

There used to be an extension which did hide all the bars, but it seems that the developer has ceased working on it and there are some major bugs. But if anyone knows of an extension which just does this one simple thing (hide all gui until moving mouse cursor to top) then please let me know.

Thanks for any consideration!

dd871 avatar Oct 11 '15 00:10 dd871

This is basically the same that was requested in #111

Quicksaver avatar Oct 11 '15 08:10 Quicksaver

Sorry, just realized now that I did probably not describe it very accurately. I thought the full screen behaviour was without any GUI options, but I had that wrong in memory.

Different to #111 I actually meant it would be great to have the option to hide both at the same time, i.e. address bar AND tab bar. Resulting in a completely hidden interface at the top, maybe except a 1-5px thick border for the skylights. Once the mouse cursor is moved to the top of the scree, all bars would fade/fold in.

This would not even require any rearrangements like discussed in #111 and if it is kept as an option only, anyone could decide if they like it or use it only to hide the location bar.

dd871 avatar Oct 12 '15 09:10 dd871

Hmm, it is interesting indeed. I find that's a much more viable option than what was suggested in #111 as well. I'll add it to my list of things to check out, but I can't promise this for anytime soon as I have other priorities at the moment.

Quicksaver avatar Oct 12 '15 09:10 Quicksaver

Hiding tab bar will bring windows system-preset frame whose width can be rarely affected by Firefox APIs. On Windows 7/8/8.1, it maybe indeed a good idea due to the thin frame. But for Windows XP (especially some system themes) and Windows 10, it will be another situation.

Riajyuu avatar Apr 15 '16 01:04 Riajyuu

Hi there can u implement the feature for menu bar as well.I know i can hide the menu bar and make it visible by pressing alt key but would love "A true mouse experience" What i want is to view the menu bar on mouse hover just like the nav bar and book marks toolbar and auto hide when mouse in unhovered.Is it possible.? TIA

MacgyverJohnson avatar Apr 15 '16 13:04 MacgyverJohnson

I'm not sure it's entirely possible for the menu bar, it's kind of... special. I'll take a look when I next work on this, but no promises.

Quicksaver avatar Apr 15 '16 14:04 Quicksaver

yay thanks a lot for the quick reply

MacgyverJohnson avatar Apr 15 '16 17:04 MacgyverJohnson