241879 - Transparent slider would be a great addition to the toolbar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227592

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Brian George]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I often use resources from the web while working, or researching/learning new
information.  Often I find myself tabbing between windows as I unfortunately
don't have a 20" LCD.  I think it would be a great feature to have an "always on
top" flag that can be set in conjunction with a transparent slider in the
toolbar.  this would allow me to layer windows and still work in a development
environment while having my reference overlayed, yet not the focused window.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Transparent slider toolbar should be a checkable option in the View -->
Toolbars menu
2. The "always on top" could also be on the transparent slider toolbar, as well
as in the General section of the Options menu.
3.




I must admit this idea was inspired by the layering feature demoed by Sun in a
recent R&D presentation of a 3D desktop.

Thanks for the great product!

Comment 1

[Brian George]

I often use an integrated chat client named Trillian that has a transparent
feature, as well as the always on top.  I've found it usefull when working in a
development environemnt and chatting with co-workers.

Comment 2

[Warner Young]

Reporter, if you have an Nvidia or ATI display card, you may be able to use
their included utilities to make any window transparent (Nview for Nvidia,
HydraVision for ATI).

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

transparency isn't really something that we're ever going to do.  Always on top
was WONTFIXed a while back.

http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#windowlayers does this though, its
windows-only.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227592 ***