On 2020-12-27 at 23:41, Trever Furnish wrote:

>  [ To the list owner -- I sent this originally before being subscribed, and
> now, after subscribing, I'm resending.  Hopefully this won't result in a
> doubled up message. ]
> 
> We're struggling to find a way to get Firefox (ESR 78.5, currently) to hide
> or combine the three horizontal bars at the top -- the window manager title
> bar, the tab bar, and the "location bar" (not sure what this is usually
> called).
> 
> I will list the approaches we've tried so far.  My question is two-fold: 1)
> Is there an approach you know of that you don't see below, and 2) any
> thoughts on how to make *any* of these work?
> 
> Also I should give a little bit of background.  We have a legacy Flash
> website that we have to keep running for customers (hundreds of thousands
> of users) for just one more year while we complete our HTML5 version.

I presume you have some way to mitigate the "time bomb" which I
understand to have been built into the Flash plugin for some unspecified
number of versions now, such that the plugin will itself stop working on
the deadline date (which IIRC was January 12th, 2021)?

> Here are the approaches we've tried so far:
> 
> 1. We tried -kiosk.

> 2. We tried -ssb.

> 3. We tried setting the preference browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar

> We don't actually need the window title bar IFF we can get the window to
> open maximized and stay that way.  I might be able to run a background
> script to force it to stay maximized.  We also don't need the location bar
> -- we've already used policies.json to block access to other sites.  We
> *might* need the tab bar.

> Any suggestions?  Unfortunately we have no experience customizing firefox.
> My team so far is just racing through the documentation as quickly as we
> can, looking for options, but we feel like we've hit a wall.  Web searches
> suggest we may be able to hide some of this and shrink other parts using
> some custom CSS that the browser would load...?
> 
> Open to any suggestions.

At first glance, this looks as if one of the "auto-fullscreen" addons
might help.

There is at least one Firefox extension out there [1] which essentially
just takes the browser fullscreen at launch time, in exactly the same
way as if the user had pressed F11 after launch.

I recall there having been multiple such extensions, with different
behavior sets; I tried a few of them and settled on one to solve a type
of kiosk-mode requirement I encountered a while back, although that was
on an earlier Firefox version and I can't confirm just off whether it
still works on ESR78. I don't remember which extension it was for
certain, and I won't be back at my workplace to be able to check for
another week.

If my memory serves me correctly, this can still be reversed post-launch
by pressing F11 again, although I can't testify to that for certain.
Whether that would be a problem for your case I don't know.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autofullscreen/
-- 
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
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progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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