firefoxfullscreen
I want to use firefox as a front-end for users to see only one website.
I found how to start firefox in fullscreen, toolbars are hiding by default, but I cannot make the toolbars (address bar, tabbars etc) not showing up when the user hovers on the top of the screen.
Is there a way to do this?
This doesn't give you a keyboard shortcut, but you can use the :hover pseudoclass to allow auto-showing the nav box (the toolbars at the top of the browser window) when you hover at the top of the window.
Put this in your userChrome.css:
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
#navigator-toolbox {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
height: 3px;
margin-bottom: -3px;
overflow: hidden;
transition-property: height;
transition-delay: 1s;
transition-duration: 2s;
}
#navigator-toolbox:hover {
height: 62px;
transition-property: height;
transition-duration: 0.5s;
transition-delay: 0s;
}
You will also want to tick the "show title bar" box under Customize.
Result:
Best Answer
As lexu mentioned, what you want is typically called "kiosk mode". To my knowledge, Firefox does not include built-in kiosk mode functionality (I think only IE includes it in the base version), but it is available with a couple of different Firefox plugins.
R-Kiosk is perhaps the most popular one. I've used it before in one of my previous jobs with a Firefox 3.x setup, but I haven't tried it in a couple of years so I don't know about compatibility and functionality with newer browsers. It does state it works through the latest versions of Firefox.
The other fairly popular one is FF Fullscreen which I haven't tried, but doesn't appear to be a full kiosk mode that prevents users from getting to the desktop, but rather just a fullscreen with no toolbars mode, which might be what you're looking for anyway. Your question didn't state whether or not you wanted to keep users from getting to the desktop.