Also called the Personal Toolbar, the Firefox bookmarks bar can become over-populated so much so that the extra items get pushed into a drop-down-menu. What makes matters worse is that if you choose to change the display-mode of the toolbars to icon only, the bookmarks bar still shows the icons and the text.
Here’s how to disable the bookmarks’ labels when you change the mode of the toolbars to icon. This will disable the text labels on the bookmark items and allow showing more items than you ever imagined. You’ll have to edit the userchrome.css file in the chrome folder under your Firefox profile directory. Open it in a simple text editor and add the following lines of code to the end of it.
toolbar[mode="icons"] .toolbarbutton-text {
display:none !important;
}
What is does is basically it fixes the disabling of text labels when the toolbars are configured to show icons only (under View > Toolbars > Customize > Show – Icons). If you choose to show text labels, they will appear as usual. There’s a minor drawback to this though. You are forced to remember the bookmarks by their icons and thus bookmarks with no favicons can get confusing. A way to remember them is by their order of placement or better yet just wait for their tooltip to show up.
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Oh man, this is a great simple tip… now all I have to do is cut my bookmarks in the bar to less than 40
Great idea, but what about those link which have no graphics to display and only display a “blank white page”? Is there a way to add a graphic or picture to a URL? Not only would this be helpful in Firefox using Icons only. But it would also be great to know how to do this for my our website’s URLs?
Thanks
Roger: Use the IdentFavicon extension.
you can do this simply by left clicking each one of the icons and removing the name