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How do I reduce the bookmarks on my toolbar to icons rather than icons+website names?

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On Internet Explorer, the program allowed me to fit more bookmarks onto the toolbar by reducing the bookmarks to merely icons. I can't seem to find a way to do that with Firefox. Because of this, I can't fit nearly all of them onto the toolbar.

On Internet Explorer, the program allowed me to fit more bookmarks onto the toolbar by reducing the bookmarks to merely icons. I can't seem to find a way to do that with Firefox. Because of this, I can't fit nearly all of them onto the toolbar.

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Hi jdgoss,

Install the following, after reading about each

The idea with the style above is that you] make most of the items on the Toolbars menu folders, and keep the foldernames and bookmark/bookmarklets names that actually show on the Bookmarks toolbar very short like 1-4 characters.

Styles are very small and generally just a few lines of code, and you can modify them if you want to make changes.

More information on the extensions I use are in

More information on the styles that I use are in

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You can abbreviate individual bookmark names on the toolbar right down to nothing leaving only the icon - right click on bookmark>properties>edit name. If you are not familiar with the icon or it is not obvious you can use a very short name.

Space is also helped greatly by grouping bookmarks in folders(which will need a short name) on the toolbar. When you open the folder you can click on individual bookmarks or "Open All in Tabs".

I presume you know that the overflow from the Bookmarks Toolbar runs down the right side of your screen. Click on the double chevron(arrowheads) >> at the end of the toolbar.

Modified by alan_r

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You might like to have a look at this new extension - Smartest Bookmarks Bar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smartest-bookmarks-bar/