I'd like to be able to condense the top part of a IE7 window to just two
'rows' (instead of the current minimum of three), in order to see more of web
pages.

IE6 permitted the following two-row arrangement:
[menu controls, eg., File, ...] [address field]
[nav controls/commands] [favourite links]

It'd be great if IE7 would support something like that too, eg.,
[nav arrows] [address field] [toolbar commands]
[favourite links]

(I would sacrifice the 'search/go' field to do this -- instead I just use a
link, one of my favourite links, to a search engine, and/or make a search
engine my home page)

Obviously I don't enable tabs -- I find OS windows work fine -- but people
wanting tabs would have a third row, of tabs, instead of four.

Microsoft people and many commentators say that maximizing space (esp
vertical) for the web view is a good thing, and I think the above suggestion
would be a step in that direction (restoring something IE6 supported).

I want to see the applications, not the OS. (Don't worry, Microsoft, I'll
love your OS user interface even more if I see less of it.)

(I'd post screen shots but this forum s/w apparently doesn't support it)

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Do you honestly feel that three-eighths of an inch or so impairs your
browsing experience? Because if that's the kind of thing that really
bothers you, there's a bigger issue here.

Look, I'm no lover of Internet Explorer 7 or even Microsoft for that
matter. The world is full of little things that don't matter that only
bug me if I let them.

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Baffin wrote:
> I'd like to be able to condense the top part of a IE7 window to just two
> 'rows' (instead of the current minimum of three), in order to see more of web
> pages.
>
> IE6 permitted the following two-row arrangement:
> [menu controls, eg., File, ...] [address field]
> [nav controls/commands] [favourite links]
>
> It'd be great if IE7 would support something like that too, eg.,
> [nav arrows] [address field] [toolbar commands]
> [favourite links]
>
> (I would sacrifice the 'search/go' field to do this -- instead I just use a
> link, one of my favourite links, to a search engine, and/or make a search
> engine my home page)
>
> Obviously I don't enable tabs -- I find OS windows work fine -- but people
> wanting tabs would have a third row, of tabs, instead of four.
>
> Microsoft people and many commentators say that maximizing space (esp
> vertical) for the web view is a good thing, and I think the above suggestion
> would be a step in that direction (restoring something IE6 supported).
>
> I want to see the applications, not the OS. (Don't worry, Microsoft, I'll
> love your OS user interface even more if I see less of it.)
>
> (I'd post screen shots but this forum s/w apparently doesn't support it)
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...plorer.general

Hello Baffin,

With the Quero Toolbar, which is a replacement for the fixed navigation bar
in IE7, you can arrange the layout as follows:

[Quero Toolbar (navigation/address bar)] [menu bar] [links toolbar]

To completely hide the command bar download the Quero Launcher, a command
tool I developed, and execute the following command:

qlaunch.exe commandbar=no

Best regards,

Viktor Krammer
--
http://www.quero.at/
The New Web Experience

Actually, every PIXEL of reduced screen space is a problem. And just why
exactly shouldn't customization be allowed?

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

> Do you honestly feel that three-eighths of an inch or so impairs your
> browsing experience? Because if that's the kind of thing that really
> bothers you, there's a bigger issue here.
>
> Look, I'm no lover of Internet Explorer 7 or even Microsoft for that
> matter. The world is full of little things that don't matter that only
> bug me if I let them.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> Baffin wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to condense the top part of a IE7 window to just two
> > 'rows' (instead of the current minimum of three), in order to see more of web
> > pages.
> >
> > IE6 permitted the following two-row arrangement:
> > [menu controls, eg., File, ...] [address field]
> > [nav controls/commands] [favourite links]
> >
> > It'd be great if IE7 would support something like that too, eg.,
> > [nav arrows] [address field] [toolbar commands]
> > [favourite links]
> >
> > (I would sacrifice the 'search/go' field to do this -- instead I just use a
> > link, one of my favourite links, to a search engine, and/or make a search
> > engine my home page)
> >
> > Obviously I don't enable tabs -- I find OS windows work fine -- but people
> > wanting tabs would have a third row, of tabs, instead of four.
> >
> > Microsoft people and many commentators say that maximizing space (esp
> > vertical) for the web view is a good thing, and I think the above suggestion
> > would be a step in that direction (restoring something IE6 supported).
> >
> > I want to see the applications, not the OS. (Don't worry, Microsoft, I'll
> > love your OS user interface even more if I see less of it.)
> >
> > (I'd post screen shots but this forum s/w apparently doesn't support it)
> >
> > ----------------
> > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/communities...plorer.general
>