Reduce Your Bookmarks Toolbar to a Toolbar Button

So you have reduced your UI in Firefox to regain more screen real-estate but have a lot of bookmarks in your Bookmarks Toolbar that you use every day. Learn how to reduce that toolbar to an extremely convenient toolbar button using the Bookmarks Menu extension.

Before

Here is our example browser with a somewhat minimalized UI…not too bad but it could certainly be reduced further. Before you install the extension you should go ahead and hide your “Bookmarks Toolbar”.

After

As soon as you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will see the following message window. Click “OK” to get that wonderful button added to your “Navigation Toolbar”.

Now that is definitely looking better…all of that bookmark goodness in one little button!

Options

The options for the extension are easy to sort through…decide how you would like to handle searches, middle clicking on bookmarks, and the “Open All in tabs” option.

Conclusion

If you have been looking for a way to further reduce your UI in Firefox and yet retain easy access to all your bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar, then the Bookmarks Menu extension will be a perfect fit for you.

Links

Download the Bookmarks Menu extension (Mozilla Add-ons)

Download the Bookmarks Menu extension (Extension Homepage)

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This article was originally written on 11/19/09 Tagged with: Firefox, Firefox

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Comments (5)

1. November 19, 2009 9:16 am
   

   dave

   What about instead of adding another memhogging extension and just add all the bookmarkst to one folder, then move the bookmarks toolbar to one of the above toolbars?

   just my $.02

2. November 19, 2009 3:09 pm
   

   Kafka

   Yeah, I do that with two folders, with 2-character-long names, which I put next to the search box.

3. November 20, 2009 2:26 am
   

   hassan.tk

   Nice topic.. Thanks ..

4. November 21, 2009 12:17 am
   

   DB

   Gotta agree with dave and Kafka. I just create folders on my bookmark toolbar. I don’t need another extension dragging down my browser when a little common sense will do. Thanks for the effort, but FAIL for this one.

5. November 22, 2009 7:09 pm
   

   john

   thanks mr. geek.
   or should it be saint geek?
   you have made my cyber existence sooooo much more ergonomic, less stressful and thus much more enjoyable.
   keep up your good work!
   love,
   john from australia