This is a neat, easy trick to organize my bookmark toolbar. I used to have a big, unorganized list in the bookmark drop down menu, that was so deep in bookmarks, that I couldn’t find anything recently saved.
1. When viewing different pages in tabbed browsing, simply click on the tab of your desired web page, and drag it and drop it into your toolbar above, right under the url.
2. Now you have the favicons, and the description of the page that is about an inch and a half long.
It looks like this:
3. Then right click on the new bookmark, and go to the bottom of the menu and pick Properties. Then you get a window that looks like this:
4. Go to the first line Name, and simply delete the all of the text. Hit Save.
5. Now you have neat bookmarks of your favorite pages, identified simply by their favicons that looks like this:
6. These are pages I frequent usually every time I am on my computer, and now the bookmarks are filed neatly without the text. You can fit 10x more icons without text in the bookmark toolbar, and it looks better too. As a bonus, right click on the new icon and go down to New Separator for the clean little line to divide the icons. (I’ve done them half way through in the picture above).
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For what it’s worth, there is an add-on called XMarks for Firefox (and Chrome, and IE) that will sync your bookmarks between computers, and also store them on-line as well so you can get them whenever you’re not at home. Very helpful.
You’re so full of help-full-ness. Thanks for the additional tip.