Using Firefox, I moved the bookmarks toolbar to the menu bar.
To do this, make sure you have the bookmarks toolbar visible. Right-click on the menu bar or around the location box, then select 'customise'. Drag 'Bookmark toolbar items' to the white box next to the help menu. You can now hide the bookmark toolbar again.
Now if you add a bookmark to the bookmark toolbar, it appears on the menu bar. You can also drag bookmarklets on to it.
I have been doing it this way for years. Of course, there is less space on the menu bar, so you can't have as many bookmaarks as on a toolbar.
rename your bookmarks as (blank) and you'll be left with just the site icon. this is what I do for most bookmarks on the toolbar. That way you can fit about 40 buttons per row.
In most browsers you can simply open bookmarklets as you would any other bookmark--the location doesn't matter.
Also, in Safari, the first 10 bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar folder can be activated by pressing Cmd-1, Cmd-2, etc. even when the Bookmarks Bar is not visible.
If you really need _one-click_ acess, I guess no. NB: In Opera, You can drag bookmarks to Opera's taskbar, a la Quick Launch, note the Tumblr icon in the lower right corner next to Recycle Bin: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3503891287_e60a7839f7_o....
As for me, I hardly ever need one-click access, certainly not at the price of screen real estate and distraction. Browser remembering recent URLs makes for most of my acceleration needs; for the rest I bookmark sites in my browser or Tumblr.
I have too much screen real estate. I find I spend 90% of my online time at less than 30 sites. Having them all just be buttons saves me a lot of time when you add it up. Scrolling through my huge bookmarks folder (even with lots of hierarchical structure) is annoying.
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How do you use those plugins that are supposed to be dragged onto bookmarks toolbar? Do you really have the toolbar?
I switched off the bookmarks toolbar from the beginning and didn't yet have a reason to turn it back on.
Using Firefox, I moved the bookmarks toolbar to the menu bar.
To do this, make sure you have the bookmarks toolbar visible. Right-click on the menu bar or around the location box, then select 'customise'. Drag 'Bookmark toolbar items' to the white box next to the help menu. You can now hide the bookmark toolbar again.
Now if you add a bookmark to the bookmark toolbar, it appears on the menu bar. You can also drag bookmarklets on to it.
I have been doing it this way for years. Of course, there is less space on the menu bar, so you can't have as many bookmaarks as on a toolbar.
Thanks so much! Now I can use the addons like this without wasting screen space on a whole bookmarks bar.
I wonder if I will be able to turn off text next to bookmarklet's icons too; leaving only icons.
rename your bookmarks as (blank) and you'll be left with just the site icon. this is what I do for most bookmarks on the toolbar. That way you can fit about 40 buttons per row.
In most browsers you can simply open bookmarklets as you would any other bookmark--the location doesn't matter.
Also, in Safari, the first 10 bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar folder can be activated by pressing Cmd-1, Cmd-2, etc. even when the Bookmarks Bar is not visible.
that's odd. I doubled the size of mine (two rows). Is there some other solution to having one click access to your most visited sites?
If you really need _one-click_ acess, I guess no. NB: In Opera, You can drag bookmarks to Opera's taskbar, a la Quick Launch, note the Tumblr icon in the lower right corner next to Recycle Bin: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3503891287_e60a7839f7_o....
As for me, I hardly ever need one-click access, certainly not at the price of screen real estate and distraction. Browser remembering recent URLs makes for most of my acceleration needs; for the rest I bookmark sites in my browser or Tumblr.
I have too much screen real estate. I find I spend 90% of my online time at less than 30 sites. Having them all just be buttons saves me a lot of time when you add it up. Scrolling through my huge bookmarks folder (even with lots of hierarchical structure) is annoying.