Well I only have the ad version of opera and it bothers the hell out of me, the menu and toolbars take up almost half the screen... and you can't close them! One of the best thing I like about IE is you can close the toolbars or make the icons on it smaller. Havn't found out how to do that in Firefox yet and it is bugging me a bit... don't like huge icons.

I don't know about older version of Firefox, but with the version 0.9:

View --> Full screen

Or Just press F11.

Also, if you don't want to run "Full screen" but wanted to have bigger view screen, just do a right click on one of the icons, For example "Home". and select "customize...". Check on the "use small icons" and you will have smaller icons to increase the view screen.

[ 06-17-2004, 11:06 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]

Jorath - the toolbars in Opera are fully customisable: just create your own toolbar with only the icons you need, using the small version of each icon. See View->customise toolbars.

what is firefox ? :D

An open source (free!!!) stand alone internet browser. The current version is 0.9. The full name of the product is called Mozilla Firefox. Formerly it was known as Mozilla Firebird.

Is it better than the normal Mozilla and why?

My bad, current version is now 0.91, after a slight bug fix on the extension(s) support.

It is almost the same like Mozilla except that it is a stand alone browser, which comes without a mail client. Mozilla comes with both the browser and mail client.

Also, I believe Mozilla Firebird loads up slightly faster than Mozilla.

Other than that, you need to discover on your own. I was using Mozilla quite a while ago but after I switched to Firefox (it was known as firebird way back then), I have never bothered to try out any other Mozilla versions.