If you are one of those people who has the bad habit of installing every extension I mention, you might run into a few screen real estate problems. The basic rule you have to remember is you should at least be able to see the Web page where you are. Toolbars and addons via the toolbars shouldn’t get in your way; they should help you. To clean up the mess - download the Hide Bar extension.

I know, how is one more extension going to help clean up all the ones you already have to see? Here is how the developer of the extension explains it:

Hide Bar aims to save as much screen real estate as possible by hiding the toolbar that contains the address bar when it’s not being used. You can also choose a second toolbar to auto hide along with it which makes it very close to Epiphany’s default setup. You can also hide the tab bar completely.

If you need a Firefox extension that makes your toolbars appear and disappear in response to the mouse then you could pick up the Menu X Firefox extension. Everybody else should be good to go with the Hide Bar extension. Just think how happy you will be when you clear the clutter and get back to viewing all of the Web site you have been wanting to look at.

This Firefox extension is for version 1.5 and up of the browser. To pick it up and use it yourself, go download it from the Mozilla Update Web site.

[tags]Firefox, extensions, hide, toolbars, clutter, disappear[/tags]