As firefox keeps crashing more often and demands more resources, it’s time to move back and simplify by reverting to SeaMonkey, the old-new Netscape-Mozilla Suite branch. Less extensions cause less clutter and installer properly presents an option to install just the browser, or as it’s called, the navigator. Then it’s time for some house-keeping (see below) and the browser is clean and simple and above all just works!

Go to Edit :: Preferences, select Appearance and deactivate Print, Bookmarks, etc…

How to get rid of the irritating SeaMonkey icon to the left of the address bar? Quite easy, too. Go to your profile directory (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\**UserName**\Application Data\ Mozilla or SeaMonkey) or you know what, just search for the file “userChrome-example.css” on your computer, yeah, that’s easier. Now edit this file and exchange

/*
* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
*
* #throbber-box {
* display: none !important;
* }
*/


with

/*
* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
*/
#throbber-box {
display: none !important;
}

hence undocumenting the part of CSS responsible for the throbber. Now save the file into your chrome directory with the name “userChrome.css”. That’s all. Enjoy a clean and simple app (screenshot of a clean browser interface with the throbber button missing included). Hopefully future versions come like this by default.

By the way, installing a browser-only version will still leave the address book tab in the sidebar (F9). To remove it search for “panels.rdf” in your profile and delete

<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:addressbook"/>


and

<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:sidebar:panel:addressbook"
NC:title="Address Book"
NC:content="chrome://messenger/content/addressbook/
addressbook-panel.xul"
NC:exclude="navigator:browser" />


to take care of that.

Note: don’t you love the fact that there is no need for a second ‘google search’ box in the right hand corner? All is nicely integrated into the address input box.

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