NOTE: This topic is all about removing large "Bookmarks" button from "Bookmarks Toolbar". We are not talking about removing tiny Bookmarks button from Navigation Toolbar.
If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you might have faced this annoying issue. If we don't enable "Bookmarks Toolbar", Firefox shows a "Display your bookmarks" button at the end of standard Navigation Toolbar which contains a few options to help you in showing bookmarks toolbar, bookmark a page, etc.
That's fine but if we enable "Bookmarks Toolbar", the small button gets replaced by a big "Bookmarks" button which is shown at the end of Bookmarks Toolbar as shown in following screenshot:
The button is completely useless IMO. It takes lots of space which causes many bookmarks not showing in bookmarks toolbar and we have to click on the arrow to access those bookmarks. It would be great if we could remove the button from toolbar to get some extra space to show remaining bookmarks items.
If you try to remove that annoying "Bookmarks" button using Customize toolbar window, you'll notice that the button is not shown in Bookmarks toolbar. You'll only see "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" in Bookmarks toolbar and if you remove it from Bookmarks toolbar, none of your bookmarks will be shown in toolbar. It seems the annoying button is tightly coupled with Bookmarks items.
So how to get rid of this useless and annoying "Bookmarks" button from Bookmarks toolbar in Firefox? Here is the solution!
Today this tutorial will help you in removing this sticky "Bookmarks" button from Firefox Bookmarks toolbar:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox and right-click on toolbar and select "Customize" option.
2. It'll open Customize Toolbar window. Now you just need to drag the "Bookmarks" button present in Navigation toolbar and drop it in Customize Toolbar window as shown in following screenshot:
3. That's it. Close the window and you'll get rid of the annoying Bookmarks button from Bookmarks toolbar. You might get an arrow at the end of Bookmarks toolbar which seems a bug. Just disable Bookmarks toolbar and enable it again or restart Firefox and it'll fix this bug.
Following screenshot shows the Bookmarks toolbar without Bookmarks button in Firefox:
Actually the Bookmarks button present in Navigation toolbar and Bookmarks toolbar are same but the problem is that even if the button is shown in Bookmarks toolbar, the Customize Toolbar window still shows the button present in Navigation toolbar which confuses users and they can't understand how to remove the button from Bookmarks toolbar?
Did you also face this issue? Did you already know this trick? Please share your experience in your comment...
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Mozilla Firefox
SMBR
good useful. but no use because i use chrome.... :(
sasja
^^ does he know english???
I have done it allready
Someone
Cool.
Billy
About the new tab button in Firefox 9 or higher :(
It turn out to be a "+" at the left of tab bar :(
Could it be anyway to make it back ( like firefox 3.6 or st )
Carbonize
@Billy - You can move the new tab button around just like with most other things in Firefox. You can even put it on the navbar if you wish.
El Aqsa
Useless for you. I prefer the button to the bar.
SCBright
I really do not understand why the Bookmarks button is annoying or useless.
I prefer using it rather than the Bookmarks toolbar and gain more screen space for browsing.
This post did not seems belong to you VG!
VG
^^ You didnt get the point. This tutorial is about to remove Bookmarks button from Bookmarks toolbar and not from standard toolbar.
Carbonize
@SCBright It's useless when you are already using the bookmarks toolbar which is exactly what this article is about.
VG
^^ True.
SCBright
OK, understood. My apologies.
ódio
i dont think this is useless
RG
Thank you! that was annoying me A LOT!
Julian
I agree 100% with the uselessness of the tool, but the solution removes both buttons so there's no bookmark button left. I just want to get rid of the one on the bookmarks toolbar, but not the one I put on the navigation toolbar. If you remove both, how to get to your bookmarks except by bringing up the menu every time?
VG
^^ When you use Bookmarks toolbar, there is no need of an extra bookmarks button in navigation toolbar. :)
Julian
Bookmarks and the toolbar are very different - bookmarks toolbar isn't organised, just a single list. Useful for common used pages, but only a liited number of them.
Bookmarks off-toolbar can be organised by folders and many levels to allow many bookmarks to be organised.
LiN
To me it helps i not want that button :P
Deepak Bansal
Heyy, I used this technique in my firefox 12, to remove the icon from 'Navigation Bar' and it worked for it too ;) thanks
Paw
Thank for this tutorial! Anyway, I'm using both bookmarks toolbar (for commonly accessed sites - one click) and the bookmarks menu (for storing hundreds of less often used sites). Is there a way to have toolbar and also bookmarks button, but where I want it to be, and not on the toolbar?
PHatDriver
Wow! Thanx very much! What a simple fix to such a pain in the arse!
Akira Sanjuro
Brilliant! Been annoying me for ages.
Niyaz
Thanks a lot! It was really annoying for me that I couldn't remove it from the Bookmarks Toolbar.
GStrike19
Thanks man. It was so simple, but so hard to find out. Cheers!