Tweak Firefox for widescreens and make it stay in the background when you want it to

Have a widescreen monitor?  Chances are if you have a newer laptop you do.  Even lots of desktop users are jumping on the widescreen bandwagon.  Well, funny thing is that applications haven’t caught up with this change in monitor size.  Fear not, though, help is on its way.

I found this from GHacks a long while ago, but there is a very, very simple way to tweak Firefox to make the most of your monitor. Jonathon Weare’s tips will take you, oh, 5 minutes to put into place and the benefit is immediate.  In fact when I was using a desktop machine with a (now) standard 1024×768 monitor I really missed these tweaks!  I might have to make the tweak on that system too!

Speaking of tweaks, don’t you hate it when you want to open a link from another application (and I’m thinking about reading RSS feeds in FeedDemon myself) and Firefox jumps to the front?  Sure lots of times you want this to happen, but when I’m trying to open stuff to blog, well I’d rather Firefox stay nicely in the background.  Amit Agarwal posted this oh so simple tweak to keep Firefox in the background.

How’s that for pimping your browser!  And it didn’t mean any animal prints or fuzzy dice!