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Send Firefox to the System Tray

November 20th, 2009 by Ken

If you use Firefox, the popular internet browser thats surpassed its Microsoft counterpart in the area of ease and functionality, I’m sure you’ve always wanted the ability to minimize your session in the system tray – freeing up your task bar for other applications. Well, you finally can, with the cool MinimizeToTray extension that does just that.

As I’ve discussed in the past, Firefox extensions are neat apps that augment your browsing experience, empowering you with the ability to tailor the browser – its functionality and appearance, mainly – to your browsing needs. Outside of the customizable options included with the browser, Firefox extensions add to the experience, with hundreds of unique types that do everything from monitoring email to storing passwords.

This extension allows you to minimize the browser in the System Tray.

This version works with Firefox 3.0 – 3.5

After you’ve installed the extension, you’re given three ways to minimize the browser to the System Tray.

Using the first option, you can access the “Minimize to tray” function from the File Menu. The second option will see you using just the F9 key to minimize the browser. If you’d rather just have a button that sends that browser to the tray with a simple click, all you need to do is access the Customize Toolbar Window and select the “To tray” button for wherever you see fit to place it.

After you’ve minimized the browser, you’ll see that it’s included in the System Tray.

You’re also able to specify when you’d like the browser minimized, even having the ability to minimize it to System Tray when closing the window. If you want only certain windows minimized in the tray, you’re given the option to specify which ones (Bookmarks? Downloads? Browser?).

Firefox is fast becoming the most popular browser for the internet, with its many extensions one of the reasons why. For those of you who’d like to free up your Taskbar for other programs, this is a great way to do so.

You can download the MinimizeToTray extension here.

Related posts:

1. Tired of Firefox consuming all of that RAM?
2. Tabberwocky improves Firefox tabs
3. Give Firefox a little breathing room
4. Delete cookies with the CookieKiller extension for Firefox.
5. Mozilla pushes Firefox 3.6 back.

Tags: Firefox, internet

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