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:
