Space Saving Extension for Firefox Bookmark Toolbar Users
Anyone that has a lot of bookmarks on the Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox is sure to be looking for a way to save some space. What if you could remove all of the text from the bookmarks and only see the icons? That would definitely save some room, but that might not make it easy to distinguish between multiple bookmarks that have the same icon.
That’s where Smart Bookmarks Bar comes into play (pictured above). After installing that extension it will collapse all of your bookmarks down to just their icon, but if you hover over any of them it will expand to show the name you designated for that bookmark. This makes it a lot easier to find bookmarks that might have the same icon while saving you a lot of space.
Personally I don’t use the Bookmarks Toolbar because I rather have them shown in the sidebar where I can see more of them simultaneously. If I didn’t have a widescreen monitor, however, I definitely wouldn’t want to sacrifice the space that a sidebar takes up so I’m sure I would just use the toolbar.
If you’re looking for a way that you can retrieve your bookmarks from any location you should try out Foxmarks. After several recommendations I decided to give it a go and see how much I liked it over my existing Gmarks Firefox extension. Using Foxmarks you are able to synchronize your Firefox bookmarks with a remote service (registration is required) and you can then access them from anywhere with the remote website that they have setup. I considered giving the Del.icio.us extension a try, but I don’t like that I have to check a box each time that I want my bookmark to be private. If there was a default option for that it might be a little better. I’d definitely be interested in hearing what everyone is using for your bookmark manager in Firefox.
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Tags: Firefox, Software, Bookmark, Firefox Extensions
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Most of my bookmarks are in del.icio.us. I do use the Firefox extension because it doesn’t really bother me that the bookmarks aren’t private by default. Most of my bookmarks aren’t private. I tried Foxmarks on a separate Firefox installation and thought it was a really good service. I might eventually sync my bookmarks (from my main Firefox install) with Foxmarks. I did try Gmarks before and didn’t like it for whatever reason, even though I usually love Google’s services.
I remove the name of the bookmarks and keep only the favicon. Is a simple but effective way of gain space in the bookmarks toolbar. But Smart Bookmarks is a great option too.
Does anyone know of a way to have TWO links toolbars? I have a lot of bookmarklets.
Nathan
Looks good but over half of my bookmarks have no icon!
Ray
Here’s an alternative that requires you to simply add some code to your userChrome.css (unless you have Stylish):
http://userstyles.org/style/show/1629
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mult.....rk_toolbar
http://userstyles.org/style/show/1042
Why not just create folders and place your links in them. It makes a pulldown menu with folder specific bookmarks. Great for space saving and easy bookmark finding with unlimited potential
@Chad: Thanks for pulling up the answers to the questions for those people!
That’s true but a lot of people like to minimize the number of clicks they have to make before opening a bookmark, and having folders adds an additional click. I know, it sounds kinda ridiculous but I know several companies who go through click optimizations to make sure users have to perform the least number of clicks possible to get the job done, so it really is important.
How to remove icons from bookmarks? I usually cut the name but icon are really space eaters..how to remove icons completely from being displayed?