Hi.
When working fullscreen using a mouseless style of navigation, I need to select a tab from the tab panel at times. Since Firefox hides user interface panels in this mode, it's difficult to select the right tab without seeing it. Is there any way to temporary unhide the browser's UI in fullscreen without resort to mouse using?
Thanks.
Unhiding UI in fullscreen
- therube
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Re: Unhiding UI in fullscreen
F11 ?
Fire 750, bring back 250.
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- sayonalion
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Re: Unhiding UI in fullscreen
If you move the mouse pointer to the top edge of the screen in the full screen mode, the browser's UI appears. I need a way it to appear without a mouse but a keyboard.
- therube
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Re: Unhiding UI in fullscreen
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ke ... ks-quickly seems to say that Alt or F10 should do it, but I don't see where that is working (any longer?)?
F6 will give you the URL bar, but then to get back into fullscreen (F11), you first have to put focus into the page (rather then the URL bar itself, otherwise F11 will not put you back into fullscreen).
F6 will give you the URL bar, but then to get back into fullscreen (F11), you first have to put focus into the page (rather then the URL bar itself, otherwise F11 will not put you back into fullscreen).
Fire 750, bring back 250.
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- dfoulkes
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Re: Unhiding UI in fullscreen
Maybe a search of the Extension site? ... I found this in there... I have no idea if it does what you want...
mFull: Full Screen Mode for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox
It's always good to test these things out in a test profile...
Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
And,.... DON'T TOUCH THAT "Choose Folder..." BUTTON! ... unless you fully know all about it.
mFull: Full Screen Mode for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox
It's always good to test these things out in a test profile...
Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
And,.... DON'T TOUCH THAT "Choose Folder..." BUTTON! ... unless you fully know all about it.
As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!
- sayonalion
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Re: Unhiding UI in fullscreen
F6 (or Ctrl-l) fits for me. No need to focus on a page, just press Esc once to unfocus the URL bar and twice to hide the UI (on Linux at least).
The only inconvenience in my specific case is connected with the fact that I use custom hotkeys to control the browser. After focusing the URL bar and before starting interaction with the hotkeys I need to press Esc every time in order to unfocus the URL bar and prevent typing in it forcing the browser listening the hotkeys instead.
The only inconvenience in my specific case is connected with the fact that I use custom hotkeys to control the browser. After focusing the URL bar and before starting interaction with the hotkeys I need to press Esc every time in order to unfocus the URL bar and prevent typing in it forcing the browser listening the hotkeys instead.