FireTray Alternatives
FireTray is described as 'is system tray extension for Linux and Windows that targets Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey' and is an app in the Web Browsers category. There are more than 10 alternatives to FireTray for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Windows Explorer and Ubuntu. The best alternative is RBTray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FireTray are Actual Window Manager (Paid), RBTray Fork (Free, Open Source), SmartSystemMenu (Free, Open Source) and Clicky Gone (Free, Open Source).
- Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
Discontinued
Last update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
- Actual Window Manager is 13 tools in 1. FILE FOLDERS improves Windows folders navigation adding two additional title buttons: recent folders, favorite folders.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
- Clicky Gone allows you to hide your selected windows from view, this includes the taskbar button associated with the application. This utility particularly helps with protecting your privacy by hiding things like your browser with banking details up and someone walks in on you.
- TrayIt! - minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.6.5.5, released on June 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
- Stalonetray is a stand-alone system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11. Working with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager, it has minimal build and run-time dependencies (X11 lib only). Complete XEMBED support under development.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- openSUSE
- Arch Linux
- Openbox
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Compiz
- Debian
- X11
- Enlightenment
- Xmonad
- PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.
Discontinued
The app is no longer updated, but it can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Minime is a tool that allows you to minimize applications to the system tray using a simple hotkey. What makes this tool somewhat unique is that it keeps your system tray clean by minimizing all applications into a single tray icon.
Discontinued
Last Update: 2013-04-10. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/minime-tool/
- TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.No screenshots yet