Dock Hiding Help

[RodChester]

Ok so I just switched to my first Mac. A MacBook Pro 13" base model. I have one question about using the dock the way I would like to. Right now I have the dock on the bottom of the screen and set to hide unless I mouse around the bottom of the screen. I like this so that I can have Firefox maximized to take up the whole screen. However, I wold like to show the dock on the desktop when I don't have any windows maximized.

So I guess my question is this. Is there a way to set the dock to automatically hide when windows are maximized on the screen and then have the dock automatically show when there are no windows open or maximized?

 

[mac2x]

Not that I know of. Personally, I prefer a smaller—but fixed—dock.

 

[xi mezmerize ix]

That's kind of nit-picky so I don't think there's a way of doing that. It's like wanting your wallpaper to change depending on the app you're running.

 

[RodChester]

Not that I know of. Personally, I prefer a smaller—but fixed—dock.

Yeah, I've made my dock really small and set the magnification to be really big. This solution is something I can get used to and be ok with. I'm just coming from using Windows 7 and that OS has a really great taskbar.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

There are 3rd-party Dock replacements out there you may find to your liking, such as DragThing.