How to hide Firefox titlebar in Gnome Shell?

Question

I am running Gnome-shell 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.10. Is there a way to hide the firefox title bar and make it like Chrome's ? I would need the min/max buttons in tab-bar. There was a tutorial in webupd8, but that was with compiz.

Answer 1

I wondered how to do this as well and found that I do not need the title bar in any window if it is full screen in order to safe some pixels, so I did some changes to my metacity-theme-3.xml

/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

<frame_geometry name="max" has_title="false" title_scale="medium" parent="normal" rounded_top_left="false" rounded_top_right="false">
    <distance name="left_width" value="0" />
    <distance name="right_width" value="0" />
    <distance name="left_titlebar_edge" value="0"/>
    <distance name="right_titlebar_edge" value="0"/>
    <distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="0"/> <!-- 
                            This needs to be 1 less then the
                            title_vertical_pad on normal state
                            or you'll have bigger buttons                               -->
    <border name="title_border" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"/>
    <border name="button_border" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"/>
    <distance name="bottom_height" value="0" />
</frame_geometry>

With the "Menu bar" unticked, it just looks like Chrome. :)

There is also a Gnome 3 extension for this: Maximus.

PS: I can also recommend the GNOME 3 theme for a consistent look and feel (scroll bars etc).

Answer 2

As the global menu extension in gnome-shell doesn't work with firefox, you have to make do with the firefox extensions.

There is an extension called "Mozilla Labs: Prospector - LessChrome HD 7" which shows the navigation bar only on mouse-over. It works quite well (works also very well with unity).

You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prospector-lessChrome-HD/?src=userprofile

Additionally, in View -> Toolbars, unmark "Menu Bar" and mark "Tabs on top"

Your Firefox window should now look like this:

Answer 3

There is a good workaround here. It provides a keyboard shortcut for a fullscreen mode in which the Firefox bars are preserved.

Steps:

1. Open 'System Settings' (under the user menu top-right on the screen)
2. Select 'Keyboard'
3. Click on the 'shortcuts' tab
4. Select 'Windows' group of shortcuts
5. Click twice on 'Toggle fullscreen mode'
6. Type a shortcut (I use Shift+F11)

It's not perfect, but it does 90% of the job.

Answer 4

You could use HTitle Firefox extension to hide title bar. This can be used only with Gnome 3.

Answer 5

I found a solution: Install this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/hide-caption-titlebar-plus-sma/

All credits to WebUpd8: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/firefox-4-get-tabs-in-title-bar-like.html