Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:40:01 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boting straight into firefox Message-ID: <CAGBxaXmNj2UVKs1ROOKJtydU79mKDAdp=qx_i4x_=8UMFj_18Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110715073819.e15fba3d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAGBxaXnbenRFSP5yNVuQSi71NCE7-fkShQGp=A9s_OFeRRAm=Q@mail.gmail.com> <20110715033735.GA11321@guilt.hydra> <20110715063854.38368777.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAGBxaXmNvcuUqH12pKTHEyK6CoMC3Tvz2VAbH-k%2BERstRD3cFA@mail.gmail.com> <20110715073819.e15fba3d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> >> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox? =A0Would a more minimal (but stil= l GUI) >> >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? >> > >> > Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar, >> > navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars >> > of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described >> > above. >> >> It is a client requirement. =A0 =A0The client is replacing a windows bas= ed >> solution with FreeBSD and for what ever reasons all the sites that >> need to be displayed are specific to ff (the use features only found >> in it or IE 9). > > Okay, understandable. In this case your choice is limited, > but that shouldn't be a big problem. Just see how firefox > can be brought into fullscreen mode, either by one of its > own options, or by using the generic -geometry option as > shown in the "dillo" example. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0firefox -width 1024 -height 768 > > But "firefox -help" doesn't show parameters for positioning, > and also by pressing PF11 for "interactively entered fullscreen > mode", the navigational elements keep being present. But > maybe there's something you can do by configuration file, > so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too. There are several extensions that do it already and if for some reason non-work it looks trivial to make one
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