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Hello, Im an old user returning to Palemoon. When I used the program a few months ago i remember being able to re-size the window to just a small strip, pretty much just the top bar would be visible.

I use a program called winroll for this.

With the latest version of palemoon i noticed it can only be rolled up to about a half inch from the bottom of the bookmarks toolbar.

Is there a setting i can change for the window to be able to further rolled up?

I know you won't like this answer, but that's what the minimize button is for.

I know what he is talking about.. MozCo changed that so that the main navi toolbar cannot be hidden anymore via window sizing. I am not entirely sure when this was implemented but IMO it was the right call..

Tobin, if you can find which bug this was changed in (I've had no luck), I can see if it's possible to make an override for people who want to use roll-up tools.

Because the Navigation bar is a special case, resizing is restricted to more than just the title bar. but you can reduce the height to its absolute minimum (title bar + nav bar) by putting the following in userChrome.css: Reducing further is not possible, but it should save you more space.

EDIT: The window size restriction is there for a very good (security) reason, and as long as your roll-up tool tries to use a simple (automated) resize of the window to reduce its height, it will resize down to what is the allowed lower limit and no further as a result of this restriction.

If your tool would do it a different way, not trying to resize but actually changing the window at a lower level in the operating system, then it would likely work better. There are, unfortunately, very few programs that do it this way because it is a lot more complicated and requires in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft UX library. According to my chat with Tobin, Windowblinds can do it the way you prefer, but e.g. Actual Window Manager can't.

This change was first introduced in Gecko/17 (Released as Firefox 17 in November 2012). I have found the common code that allows it to happen but finding a seemingly orphaned bug that actually implemented it in the browser specific code is like finding a needle in a haystack.. For all I know the code was always present but the bug I found actually made it work as intended.

Sorry but that just seems to be how it is.. Besides the minimum height is there for a reason.

As a result of this intensive searching without yielding any results coupled with quite likely intended behavior, I am going to, in typical Mozilla style, consider this:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

But not for lack of trying

The experimental version of Aurora does allow this, perhaps they forgot of the security implications.
Thanks for looking into it!!