I have more bookmarks in that toolbar than Firefox was able to display which lead to the unfortunate situation that the last ones were not shown in this toolbar anymore. I was only able to access them using the arrow on the right side of that toolbar that contained all bookmarks who could not be displayed anymore. This was not a great situation and the first thing that came to my mind was to change the text of the bookmarks – identify the site with less text and you have more space for sites.
This worked for some time but not anymore. To much sites, compressed text everywhere and I had the same problem again. I knew that firefox was highly customizable and I began searching for a way to alter the style for the bookmarks toolbar and quickly found it. Now, to change the style which includes reducing or increasing font size, changing the font type, changing colors on that font and much more you need to open userchrome.css which should be in your firefox profile folder.
Paste the following line of code at the end of this file:
.toolbarbutton-text {
font-size: 9px !important;
}
This changes the default font size to 9px which is what I’am currently using. To increase it just increase the value. Some other settings that you could try:
Change the font color of the bookmarks:
font-color: blue !important;
Change the font itself:
font-family: Verdana !important;
Change the background color – this example changes it to blue.
background-color: blue !important;
Creates a border around the bookmarks.
border: 1px solid !important;
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The easiest way to get more bookmarks on the toolbar is to use Folders. To do that just right click a blank spot on the toolbar (I know that is difficult for you :)and select “New Folder”. After you have a folder or two just drag and drop the individual book marks into the folder(s).
Well, yes that would be an option indeed. Did not know that you could add folders there as well.
I still like to reach everything with one click :P
I wish I could have 2 bookmark tool bars. What I am doing now is just not having any text and relying solely on favicons for my bookmarks.
I had the same issue with the toolbar. I erased the text and just used a full row of icons (that is, for the sites that actually *use* icons. Some are still in the dark ages and they have that awful blank white ‘typing paper’ looking thing. Nice way to set themselves apart, eh?).
Like you, I ran out of room and ended up adding actual folders. Soon I ended up with a row of folders for different purposes (business related, mags and newspapers, multimedia, and so forth).
Again I ran into an annoyance: in Firefox, your folders will always look alike. There’s no way to, for example, right click and select a different sort of icon to use as a file folder. Sure, the folders on my toolbar are all *named* differently, but it would be more efficient if each folder had a unique visual appearance to make it faster to find the one you want. Plus, you could do the same thing as mentioned previously re: the bookmarks – erase the actual filename and go by the folder’s unique appearance alone.
Isn’t there a way to somehow change folder appearances in Firefox? Even if there could be a simple color-change option that would help. That kind of ability seems to be a necessary one for those of us who have different files for business use and personal use, as well as files of bookmarks that may belong to another person in the household for instance.
I hope someone can come up with some customization solutions for the folders and bookmarks thing!
Long live gHacks! – Steph
Recently my bookmarks toolbar has completely disappeared and I haven’t been unable to reset or fix it. To be more accurate, the toolbar is there, but blank.
Anyone else had this problem?
I had that when upgrading from FF1.5 to 2.0.
The solution was to completely remove Firefax (with Windows Add/Delete programs) and then reinstall 2.0 from scratch.
This should do no harm to your profile settings but backuping it could be wise tough…
[edit: *have* been unable]
Godfrey never heard of that before..
Hi,
You speak about little text, but, if the icon is sufficiently comprehensible, you can also empty the text field… This gains a lot of space.
The only problem is for sites that has a standard favicon… A extension to specify a favicon for bookmarks would be great…
I’m an organization freak on my toolbar, and I have eight main folders with different categories: Entertainment, News, Shopping, My Stuff, etc.
Under each (PLAIN AND BORING) folder I have the easy to distinguish icons. I use Favicon Picker 3 to make icons for the rare sites that don’t have their own icons already. It’s very easy to add an icon when one doesn’t exist.
Eventually I believe that Favicon Picker is going to make the folders customizable. I know that this is a complaint a lot of people have. If I could lose the text next to my folders, everything would be MUCH nicer.