From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 05:40:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72E5106566C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3328FC1A for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so501101gxk.13 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:40:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=k5HbldWGKzfYgNiz6f1gxLCJ9ZsRiJ2Wp/vuIFaPEmY=; b=EqLbVwyvdeTeu6dp8OcRb6GoqMhusux1TQEoAm9lUnk4PWOtFy4+MpH2rakC1pO/z6 Yp9y+gqOXYrJQHOO0rwqEDaztsiRWtnf2nny2SjWvy0OaQCcprJnpUAqiBUtBQCf4MJI ATAUcQEfVVRkTc17TXzVJCBkUX/evyK6/qpsU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.136.227 with SMTP id w63mr4203161yhi.507.1310708401738; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.110.40 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:40:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110715073819.e15fba3d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110715033735.GA11321@guilt.hydra> <20110715063854.38368777.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110715073819.e15fba3d.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:40:01 -0400 Message-ID: From: Aryeh Friedman To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Chad Perrin , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: boting straight into firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:40:02 -0000 On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon 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