Comments on: Share Bookmarks between IE and Firefox

By: Awktane

Awktane — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:44:55 +0000

Further on what I said above there is an addon that will remove it too called Menu Editor. This addon will allow you to also remove the context menu “Add to bookmarks” entries easily.

By: Awktane

Awktane — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:31:32 +0000

Bringing to life an ancient thread but this still works with firefox 3.5 with one modification. The entry added to your file should be

#bookmarksMenu {display:none !important;}

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:50:05 +0000

Any thoughts on sharing with Google Chrome as well now? Also, hiding the Bookmarks Menu no longer works in the newest version of Firefox!

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:43:31 +0000

I had the same problem as JMH16 re removing bookmarks until I discovered there are several chrom directories, the one that works is:

is in C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Profile Name]\chrome\

also, there is an example file there (and a copy with the carriage returns displaying properly here C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\chrome). These say to put the namespace line in. I have pasted my complete working file below for posterity:

/*
* Edit this file and copy it as userChrome.css into your
* profile-directory/chrome/
* (which is in C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Profile Name]\chrome\)
*/

/*
* This file can be used to customize the look of Mozilla’s user interface
* You should consider using !important on rules which you want to
* override default settings.
*/

/*
* Do not remove the @namespace line — it’s required for correct functioning
*/

/*
set default namespace to XUL
*/

@namespace url(”http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”);

#bookmarks-menu {display:none !important;}

/*
* Some possible accessibility enhancements:
*/
/*
* Make all the default font sizes 20 pt:
*
* * {
* font-size: 20pt !important
* }
*/
/*
* Make menu items in particular 15 pt instead of the default size:
*
* menupopup > * {
* font-size: 15pt !important
* }
*/
/*
* Give the Location (URL) Bar a fixed-width font
*
* #urlbar {
* font-family: monospace !important;
* }
*/

/*
* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
*
* #throbber-box {
* display: none !important;
* }
*/

/*
* For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
*/

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:27:22 +0000

hah hah, ok – where I used html, guess what. so, what that said is, trying inserting spaces to get them to display: & became & a m p ; and ‘ became & # 3 9 ;

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:24:17 +0000

There is a minor complication in that ie6 exports favorites to Firefox 2 but Firefox doesn’t reciprocate. The main issue was the 100+ I used an & symbol, which got converted to & and there was also a bunch of ‘ which became ' (from memory). This was both in the names themselves and the text items which were typically site generated.

It was easy enough to fix this, just opened the file in an html editor (I used Front Page) and very soon the replace all tool fixed it.

There were a few favorites created that had ridiculously long strings nothing to do with what I put there, just deleted these!

By: nfiken

nfiken — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:42:51 +0000

what about the bookmarktoolbar or whatever it’s called, the one showing all the bookmarks just above the page I guess that one won’t work?

By: JMH16

JMH16 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:51:36 +0000

for some reason can’t remove Bookmarks from the menu. any more details about the userChrome.css file
maybe a screenshot of what the exact text would look like??

By: gnome

gnome — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:19:22 +0000

Very handy!