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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.
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Comments (5)
Akemi Iwaya (Asian Angel) is our very own Firefox Fangirl who enjoys working with multiple browsers and loves 'old school' role-playing games. Visit her on Twitter and Google+.
- Published 11/19/09
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
Yeah, I do that with two folders, with 2-character-long names, which I put next to the search box.
Nice topic.. Thanks ..
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.
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