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Managing bookmarks tip

May 17 2006
by Rachel
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I’m sure you’ve all learnt this well before me but I recently had someone look at my browser and say, “wow, cool how did you do that?” Aside from using delicious, it’s nice to have the most popular sites you go to sitting right there in your browser on your bookmark toolbar.

The problem was, I was getting too many bookmarks on my toolbar. So, I started removing the site titles from the toolbar and made them as short as possible. For sites which had favicons, I’d remove the title completely from my toolbar. The problem was, lots of sites didn’t have favicons, so I couldn’t remove those titles completely.

I hunted around on the Firefox extensions site for something which would let me pick a custom favicon for these sites but the favicon picker there was for an old version of Firefox and wouldn’t work on 1.5.x. I hunted around to see if there was an update and found one in the Mozilla forums. Once installed I was able to just have little icons on my bookmarks toolbar:

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your thoughts

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    Very nice tip with the extension. It looks like the perfect addition to my collection. I’ve begun collecting so many frequented sites in my toolbar that it’s beginning to look very cluttered.

  • http://www.digital-photography-school.com/blog Darren Rowse

    is making favicons the bookmark automatic when you delete the name? I’ve tried this and it doesn’t work – is there a plugin for it or is this a ‘mac problem’?

  • http://www.platinumgeek.net Bethany

    GREAT tip! I’ve been looking to find a tool like this for a long time. Thanks!!

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  • http://www.shalosophy.com Shalosophy

    That’s funny, I did this a while ago not knowing that anyone else has, it works well for me too, great tip.

  • http://www.scionguy.com Thomas

    That’s cool that you can do that. Me personally I use del.icio.us and have the RSS feed on my toolbar in Firefox. That got rid of the clutter from my toolbar since I now just have that 1 feed plus I have the same bookmarks available to me at work, home, or anywhere else I go.

  • Nigel

    Personally I use folders on the bookmark toolbar, nice extension though.

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  • http://danielimmke.com Mag

    It doesn’t work for 1.5.3

    Shame.

  • http://chronotron.wordpress.com Chrono Cr@cker

    Have any of you people used http://blinklist.com. It really pwns del.icio.us, by miles ahead and presents much better customization options.

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    Hopefully they’ll do another update of the extension for 1.5.3 Mag. I’ll keep an eye out for anything.

    Chrono – here’s the thing, I’ve tried a few other bookmarking tools and stopped… they offered features I didn’t need and were too complicated. If you were trying to convince me to switch from delicious, what would be the feature you’d tell me about?

  • http://chronotron.wordpress.com Chrono Cr@cker

    Unfortunately Rachel, it’s not about 1 feature, it’s about a lot more…. I suppose del.icio.us users are just too complacent to change, I’ve heard this a lot but just check out Blinklist. (Will make it a point to link to a couple of reviews next time)..

    Nice tip btw!

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    I know there’s a lot of features – I guess I would love to hear a reason why someone should switch. What am I missing out on? :)

  • http://adinb.suprglu.com Adin

    Does anyone know what hacking I need to do to the theme to enable favicon views in the toolbar? (I’m currently using the GrApple & SafariFox themes….)

    And has *anyone* figured out how to do this in Safari?????

  • http://www.peterjobes.co.uk/weblog Pete

    Long time no blog, Rachel, Hope everything is ok!

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    Yup, everything’s fine thanks :)

    Just had lots of people over the last few nights… must blog this weekend :)

  • http://www.peterjobes.co.uk/weblog Pete

    Cool, shall look forward to it :)

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  • http://gmarik.blogspot.com gmarik
  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    Nice, thanks! Have done that just now :)

  • http://gmarik.blogspot.com gmarik

    Great!
    But my link is too long for your “Current Disscussions” list…
    overflow:hidden; may help:)

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    Thanks :)

  • http://farlane.wordpress.com/ farlane

    Thanks Rachel – now I can cram even MORE sites into my toolbar. It’s always nice when impersonal Google sends you to a site you like for the answer!

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