I haven't used a mac regularly since my Apple II plus in 1980. I have a new MB. It bothers me that in firefox or safari, a whole small segment of the top of the browser window has nothing but the colored buttons. Seems like a waste of vertical space when you are trying to get the most of a 13 inch screen. Is there some way to move those around or make them share a line with the address bar or something, like in can in Windows?
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How can I reclaim the space occupied by the red/yellow/green buttons
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No, you cannot move those since they control the window operations and are part of the border. They have to stay where they are.
It's not that I would eliminate them, I would assign them a position that wasted less space in my open window. I'm used to firefox for windows which has a much more customizable interface.
Ok first of all, if you relocate the buttons. there is no space difference. Take safari for example. If I removed the buttons, I still have that same space used by the title of the web page. Trust me, just turn the dock to auto-hide. It saves about 10X the space than the little buttons do. Much less hassle, since the space occupied by the buttons is used.