Netbook Tips: How to optimise your browser window for more viewing space
If you want to increase your screen space for surfing the web, we have a few simple tips that will help you to see more of the web in your internet browser.
1. Toolbar Shrinking
Consider an add-on that shrinks the amount of space a program’s toolbar takes up. Firefox, for example, has at least two toolbar-squishing add-ons available: Littlefox (snipurl.com/hkshp) and Classic Compact (snipurl.com/hksj5). Both will reduce the size of your toolbar.
2. Full Screen Mode
If you find that videos and images are too big for the browser window. This one is easily dealt with by pressing the F11 button on your keyboard which takes your browser into full screen mode – your toolbar and taskbar will be hidden. Just hit F11 – Try it now!
3. Zoom Out
It’s relatively uncommon to find a website that’s optimised for a screen resolution wider than 1024 pixels, but when it happens it can make life a real pain. Not only do you have to scroll horizontally to see the whole page, but that extra scroll bar takes up another chunk of valuable vertical screen real estate. Fortunately, Firefox’s Zoom function allows you to deal with sites like this quickly and painlessly.
Hitting Control and – (minus key) decreases the size of the page, while Control and + (plus key) increases it. Control and 0 (zero key) resets to the original size. By default, the behavior will scale all elements of the page, and doesn’t seem to break any layouts, so it’s just like zooming in or out while viewing a digital photograph.
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