Show us your custom browser layouts!

[MaxIBoy]

I'd be interested to see how people have customized the layout of their web browsers.

Ideally just a screenshot of your browser maximized, with some tabs open, and the "About Box" window open so we can see what version you are using. (Please use thumbnails or image attachments, don't post obnoxiously huge images.)

If there are any customizations you have made, which aren't obvious just from looking at the screenshot, please post what you have done.

(EDIT: I've posted a newer setup below (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10483857&postcount=38).)

I'll start with my Firefox setup:
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1584/ffxlayout1.th.png (http://img444.imageshack.us/i/ffxlayout1.png/)
The only non-obvious customization is that I went into preferences, then the "content" tab, clicked on "colors," and checked "use system colors." For a while, I had unchecked "Allow pages to choose their own colors" for readability, but many pages were broken when I did that.

[Timmer1240]

Im using google chrome with brushed metal theme.I kinda like the apple look!Notice Icon on main menu!

[NightwishFan]

Timmer that is an interesting theme you have there. Just posted to say that, but I will post my FF layout, which is fairly minimal.

[Iehova]

I wanted something that fit in with my theme but at the same time maximised vertical screen space. Fission replicates the status bar functionality in the address bar, omnibar gives it chrome-like search functionalities and personal menu replaces the menu bar. I placed the address bar and all the buttons in the menu bar toolbar because I prefer the look.

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9908/screenshotyp.th.png (http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9908/screenshotyp.png)

[tad1073]

here is mine

[Frogs Hair]

Get orange FF persona and reduce window border .

[standingwave]

Minimalistic Firefox...

Got rid of most of the buttons, I kept the forward/back buttons mostly as navigation indicators since I mostly navigate by keyboard. Icons for Downloadhelper, pagesaver, noscript and a tab counter. Readability button on the status bar (extension that clears the clutter from a page for printing - for printing docs where no "print version" exists.

[Tibuda]

http://omploader.org/vNGxsNw (http://omploader.org/vNGxsNg)
Main tweaks are Omnibar, Personal Menu and Extended Status Bar.

[cj.surrusco]

I wanted something that fit in with my theme but at the same time maximised vertical screen space. Fission replicates the status bar functionality in the address bar, omnibar gives it chrome-like search functionalities and personal menu replaces the menu bar. I placed the address bar and all the buttons in the menu bar toolbar because I prefer the look.

How do you get rid of the main toolbar that normally sits on the top?

[Iehova]

How do you get rid of the main toolbar that normally sits on the top?

There's an addon called hide menubar but I think it comes with personal menu. Hope that helps.

[lovinglinux]

Theme is Chromifox Basic (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8782/)
Statusbar customized with Organize Status Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1759/), Extended Statusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1433/) and Download Statusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26/).
Menu is customized with Tiny Menu (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455/) and Menu Editor (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/710/)
Home page is Speed Dial (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810/)
Sidebar is customized with All-in-One Sidebar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027/), currently displaying FoxRunner (http://foxrunner-extension.blogspot.com/).
Reload and Stop buttons are unified with Combine Stop/Reload buttons (http://userstyles.org/styles/10) Stylish script
Address bar button is customized with FireChrome Go Button (http://userstyles.org/styles/12977) Stylish script
Boomarks Toolbar is hidden, bookmarks are moved to Navigation Toolbar, address bar and search bar are moved to Main Toolbar.
Add-ons manager is customized with Extension Manager Extended (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2195/) and Add-on Compatibility Reporter (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/).
Mail client is Simple Mail (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5593/)
IRC client is ChatZilla (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16/)

Total number of extensions installed: 58
Currently active extensions: 53

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[NightwishFan]

That is pretty crazy. :D

[seanelly]

Midori 0.2.6

[cj.surrusco]

There's an addon called hide menubar but I think it comes with personal menu. Hope that helps.

That worked, thanks!

[mamamia88]

here is mine

[tad1073]

http://omploader.org/vNGxsNw (http://omploader.org/vNGxsNg)
Main tweaks are Omnibar, Personal Menu and Extended Status Bar.

What icon theme are you using

[lovinglinux]

That is pretty crazy. :D

:)

It looks crazy because I'm showing lots of stuff simultaneously, but most of the time is pretty clean and buttons are organized in order to reduce mouse movement and visual pollution. For instance, all buttons that open something in the sidebar are placed next to the sidebar. Buttons on the right mainly deals with navigation, restarting Firefox, opening new profile and so on. Since I always have the sidebar opened, bookmark related buttons are aligned with the page. Statusbar buttons are organized by icon size and functionality.

My context menus are not shown in the picture, but it is pretty clean. I disable a lot of stuff I don't need with Menu Editor.

[TheNessus]

You simply cannot be more minimalistic than this:

It's Opera 10.60, with window decoration disabled, and the address bar moved to the bottom.

http://j.imagehost.org/t/0498/Screenshot.jpg (http://j.imagehost.org/view/0498/Screenshot)

[Jesus_Valdez]

Midori and Firefox face to face (http://i.imgur.com/S5DEw.png).

Both as much minimalist as I could. Firefox with omnibar, stop or reload, urlext, tiny menu, fission and download status bar.

EDIT.


You simply cannot be more minimalistic than this:

...


What's your theme?

[ElSlunko]

Strata 40 as the theme + the addons in the SS

http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/thumb/83000/selection_003_RZ6XDL.jpg (http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/83000/selection_003_RZ6XDL.jpg)

[TheNessus]

What's your theme?

it uses the system's gtk theme. it is Elementary, bit modified.

[Phrea]

;)

[Legendary_Bibo]

My entire Ubuntu is Okami themed. Mind the pink, it just goes good with my wallpaper. I just have the default layout with Okami theme, and my bookmarks constantly open.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x296/legendary_bibo/Browser.png

[PhilGil]

Customizations are to maximize vertical space on a wide screen monitor.

- Tiny Menu
- All-in-One Sidebar (you can see a shot with the sidebar expanded here (http://pgilston.smugmug.com/Odds-and-Ends/Screenshots/Firefox2010-04-20/843263241_fFCA8-O.jpg))
- Tab Kit (for the vertical, color-coded tabs)
- Firefox Showcase (for fun)

http://pgilston.smugmug.com/Odds-and-Ends/Screenshots/20100613-iceweasel-screenshot/900320826_ifxdq-M.jpg (http://pgilston.smugmug.com/Odds-and-Ends/Screenshots/7872204_s5FKV#900320826_ifxdq-A-LB)

[Shazzam6999]

You simply cannot be more minimalistic than this:
Oh, really?
But normally I just use a completely unadorned Chromium... which doesn't have a deep meaning besides that it works fine as it is and I haven't really been motivated to play around with it.

So I'll be the boring person here :)... I feel like I can't be the only other person who doesn't mess around with their browser though.

[ankit singh]

file:///home/ankit/Desktop/Screenshot.png:p

[MaxIBoy]

Some really nifty stuff in this thread! It's given me a ton of cool ideas. Overall there is a phenomenal showing from all browsers here. Forget car tuning, it's amazing to see what contortions these browsers can be put through. (Especially Firefox.)

Ankit, what gtk icon set are you using?

[bigsmitty64]

;)
how please?

[sertse]

Opera/Midori/Firefox

http://omploader.org/tNGxuZg (http://omploader.org/vNGxuZg)http://omploader.org/tNGxuaA (http://omploader.org/vNGxuaA)http://omploader.org/tNGxuZw (http://omploader.org/vNGxuZw)

Not showing chrome since it's not "custom" :P

[TheNerdAL]

Mine beats all of yall's! :lolflag:

[Helkaluin]

Bare-bones visual simplicity, with the enormous plug-in extensibility of Firefox.

Vimperator for hiding almost everything and allowing keyboard control. The window decoration is done by Emerald with the theme 'Bump'.

[madnessjack]

Firefox at work on Windows XP (http://jack.kingbrick.co.uk/blog/wide-desktop.png)

Will post various Ubuntu ones when I get home

[lovinglinux]

Oh, really?
But normally I just use a completely unadorned Chromium... which doesn't have a deep meaning besides that it works fine as it is and I haven't really been motivated to play around with it.

So I'll be the boring person here :)... I feel like I can't be the only other person who doesn't mess around with their browser though.

You are not the only one. All Chrome/mium users are probably in the same situation, because it doesn't allow you to customize anything besides the theme.

[chamber]

how please?

Looks a bit like Lynx.


sudo apt-get install lynx

Info (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser))

[Berk]

http://omploader.org/tNGxvbQ (http://omploader.org/vNGxvbQ)

It is Iceweasel on an openbox install with windows decorations removed (system wide), and everything moved onto 1 bar. Status bar is removed and replaced by fission, and the menu reduced with TinyMenu, the theme is full flat that I like for it's minimal buttons.

[Phrea]

Looks a bit like Lynx.


sudo apt-get install lynx

Info (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser))

It is.

[standingwave]

You simply cannot be more minimalistic than this:

It's Opera 10.60, with window decoration disabled, and the address bar moved to the bottom.Nice! I've played with making Firefox more minimalistic with varying degrees of satisfaction. Tried hiding the title bar but found I missed it. Tried merging the tab bar with the tool bar but things got too crowded. It's likely a waste of time as I will probably be switching to Chrome at some point anyway.

This was one effort (using Chromifox) but like I said, I missed the titlebar:

[MaxIBoy]

Thought I'd update this thread with the changes I've made. I'm now using Minefield nightly builds for Firefox 4.0. Plugins used:


Status Buttons 3.0: Move the back/forward keys to the status bar. It's supposedly not compatible with Firefox 4.0 but it actually does work.
Stylish 1.1: Re-theme web pages (demonstrated here.)
Organize Status Bar 0.6.5: The ability to move icons around on the status bar just like other toolbars.
Personal Menu 5.0: Customize the Firefox menu to show both my bookmarks and my history, essentially merging the two menus. Also, remove all entries I never use or where I already know the keyboard shortcuts. The config for this plugin is shown in screenshot three.
Autopager Lite: load many pages of websites (for example, forums and blogs) and display them as one page. (Currently disabled for performance reasons.)

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/8520/firefoxwmenu.th.png (http://img691.imageshack.us/i/firefoxwmenu.png/) http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9915/firefoxwomenu.th.png (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/firefoxwomenu.png/) http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4464/screenshotpersonalmenuo.th.png (http://img403.imageshack.us/i/screenshotpersonalmenuo.png/)

[arzali]

Take that Chrome/Chromium. only full screen is better :)
http://uppix.net/e/2/d/52d4261d3d857401d0538333b9ddat.jpg (http://uppix.net/e/2/d/52d4261d3d857401d0538333b9dda.png)http://uppix.net/0/4/f/e0f122151a11192781461adb7dbf5t.jpg (http://uppix.net/0/4/f/e0f122151a11192781461adb7dbf5.png)

Addons used to customize: Stylish and Hide Caption Titlebar Plus.
Addons on tabbar (right>left) Webmail Notifier, NoScript, Stylish

[madhi19]

http://ubuntuforums.org/picture.php?albumid=1351&pictureid=7346
That the way I roll! lolll

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

*off topic*
arzali, is that docky and what is that indicator thing in the upper right hand corner? Looks great!

[standingwave]

Thought I'd link this (http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Firefox200/Fullscreen.jpg) here for the lolz. Firefox with 200 extensions installed.

[arzali]

*off topic*
arzali, is that docky and what is that indicator thing in the upper right hand corner? Looks great!

Thank you and no both are AWN. The upper right one has the indicator and clock applet activated and is set to always visible (aka Wingpanel). Here is a tut how to do this if you like http://vimeo.com/18598545

[jerenept]

Thought I'd link this (http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Firefox200/Fullscreen.jpg) here for the lolz. Firefox with 200 extensions installed.

does that use more or less than 2GB of RAM while running?

[Quadunit404]

thought i'd link this (http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/firefox200/fullscreen.jpg) here for the lolz. Firefox with 200 extensions installed.

You just made my day! Err... night. Whatever.

[Old *ix Geek]

http://www.smartassproducts.com/images/blog/desktop_022211_1x.png (http://www.smartassproducts.com/images/blog/desktop_022211_1.png)

SeaMonkey with my own coding to give each tab its own color. There used to be an extension for SM, I think it was called Colorful Tabs, but they stopped supporting it for SM so I wrote my own.

Also, my CANNOT live without, absolute favorite extension, BackToTop. This, too, used to be available for SeaMonkey but no longer is. However, with a little tweaking I got it to work. :D

[Old *ix Geek]

Thought I'd link this (http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Firefox200/Fullscreen.jpg) here for the lolz. Firefox with 200 extensions installed.I used to install extensions like there was no tomorrow, but now I've pared back to just a SMALL handful of those I really like and actually use. Why anyone would want 200 of them...I have no idea! :eek: