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Hiding Toolbars for App-Tabs in Firefox

Some weeks ago I have written a little Addon for Firefox which lets you hide the toolbars for domains. This was mainly aimed at App-Tabs introduced in Firefox4. The Addon was working for me and some friends but sadly the people on Firefox's Addonsite obviously couldn't get it to work and so it wasn't hostet on there.

Today I have read a wikipage which stated that the Firefox developers are working on a similar functionality for a future release of Firefox. I think that's great because this feature is really usefull. In the past I haven't had enough time to fix bugs on my Addon and had an bad conscience about this. But now that they implement it on there own I feel all right to not support my Addon anymore because you will get the functionality by default. That's why I love Firefox. They put interesting features in the browser but you have the choice to use it or not.