Reduce the overlay size of tools in Firefox pdf-viewer

[Cle_L]

I use Firefox to read papers and I also like to highlight important passages. Once I select the highlighter-tool, I get an overlay to change colour and size but this overlay takes away a significant amount of otherwise usable screen area. I would suggest either remodeling the overlay to a bar ontop of the text , or implementing a way (e.g. a little arrow in the corner of the overlay) to completely hide it.

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[Jon]

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[nalayna]

When using Firefox to highlight PDFs the toolbox for the highlighting tool covers the text of the paper I am trying to read. This happens in fullscreen-mode (as shown on the screenshot) and in normal viewing mode. It would be much more convenient if the toolbox would only show when hovering above the highlighter symbol (or if I had the option to untoggle the toolbox). To the right hand side there is still space in 100% zoom. Another solution would be to flip the toolbox window so that it would show more to the right hand side below the other tools.

I am using Firefox 135.0.1 (64-Bit) on my Windows 11 (64-Bit) Laptop. My display is set to 1920x1080.

[Jon]

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[myspace]

yes a big +1 to this, it needs to be fixed 

[nalayna]

there seem to be a couple of similar ideas floating around:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/collapsing-the-pdf-highlight-tool-and-more-color-options/... 

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/highlighter-tweaks-save-feature/m-p/86437 

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/correcting-in-built-pdf-s-highlighting/idi-p/58955 

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Mitochondrion]

Even if the pop up box for the highlighter defaulted to pop up to the edge of the window rather than the towards the middle of the window that would be great. A vertical toolbar on the right hand side would be excellent.